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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.
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O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering…
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into…
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