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> [Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/yes-i-laugh-at-all-mankind-and-the-imposition-that-they-dare-to/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

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## More by Charles Robert Maturin

> [“Alas! it is better to wander in perpetual sterility than to be tortured with the remembrance of flowers that have withered”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/alas-it-is-better-to-wander-in-perpetual-sterility-than-to-be/)

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> [The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/the-fountain-of-my-heart-dried-up-within-me-with-nought-that-loved-me/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er all tides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/my-own-lov-d-light-that-very-soft-and-solemn-spirit-worships-that/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/she-was-not-only-unable-to-make-the-least-allowance-for-a-divergence/)

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> [Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/tis-well-to-be-merry-and-wise-tis-well-to-be-honest-and-true-it-is/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/they-waste-life-in-what-are-called-good-resolutions-partial-efforts/)

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> [O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/o-wretched-is-the-dame-to-whom-the-sound-your-lord-will-soon-return/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [“The next moment I was chained to my chair again,--the fires were lit, the bells rang out, the litanies were sung;--my feet were scorched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/the-next-moment-i-was-chained-to-my-chair-again-the-fires-were-lit/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/it-is-actually-possible-to-become-amateurs-in-suffering/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/a-malady-preys-on-my-heart-that-med-cine-cannot-reach/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/yes-i-laugh-at-all-mankind-and-the-imposition-that-they-dare-to/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/nor-cell-nor-chain-nor-dungeon-speaks-to-the-murderer-like-the-voice/)

[Charles Robert Maturin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-robert-maturin/)

> [The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its idolatry; But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/the-limner-s-art-may-trace-the-absent-feature-and-give-the-eye-of/)

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> [“Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/let-those-who-smile-at-me-ask-themselves-whether-they-have-been/)

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> [“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-robert-maturin/hypocrisy-is-said-to-be-the-homage-that-vice-pays-to-virtue-decorum/)

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