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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…
• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most…
• The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the…
• Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had…
• Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
• Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
• I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began…
• Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in…
• All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God…
• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had…
• Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

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