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Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to…
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most…
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The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the…
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Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had…
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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began…
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Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in…
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All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God…
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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had…
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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anewÂ… it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
— Hosea Ballou
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All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing…
— Samuel Johnson
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Going forward with our service and work is an important way room qualify for revelation. In my study of the scriptures I…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to…
— William Bartram
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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
— Robert Ballard
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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I…
— Richard Jefferies
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