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• When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been,… — H. Rider Haggard
• I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison
• Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. — Fernando Pessoa
• One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to… — Bill Vaughan
• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of… — Walt Whitman
• works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which… — Rebecca West
• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen… — Washington Irving
• Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — Thomas Hardy
• He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing… — Elizabeth George
• Where no gods are, spectres rule. — Novalis

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