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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to…
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Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory…
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which…
— George Eliot
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Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior…
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
— Samuel Johnson
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Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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