"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried."
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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
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"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!"
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"Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field."
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"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced."
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"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."
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"Love's very pain is sweet"
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"Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone."
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"a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought"
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"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"
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"Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave."
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton."
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"Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange"
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
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"Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?"
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