"When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him."
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"If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless"
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"A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage."
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"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."
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"The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note."
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"Deep truth is imageless."
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"Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle."
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"Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye."
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"Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine."
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"The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning."
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"I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave."
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"In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen."
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"Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man."
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"I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science."
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"I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused."
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"I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude."
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"One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?"
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"It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found."
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"Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!"
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"The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven."
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