"This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty."
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"The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet."
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"It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?"
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"The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume."
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"I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name."
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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
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"Nought may endure but Mutability."
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"What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves."
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"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability."
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"Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on."
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"Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice."
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"Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason."
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"Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear."
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"Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God."
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"The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys."
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"True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning."
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"I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be."
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"...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet."
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"For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue."
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"He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe."
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