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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up…
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The child is the father of man.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of…
— William S. Burroughs
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
— Mark Twain
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Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during…
— E T A Hoffmann
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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale…
— William Wordsworth
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Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing…
— Frederick Marryat
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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured…
— Charlotte Bronte
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GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true…
— Judith Martin
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of…
— Mark Twain
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