"After a youth and manhood passed half in……" — Charlotte Bronte

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• All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again… — Swami Vivekananda
• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of… — Alan Watts
• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. — Edith Hamilton
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony… — Thomas Jefferson
• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the… — William Wordsworth
• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home… — Johannes Kepler
• He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'… — Thomas Carlyle
• I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment,… — Anthony Hopkins
• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We… — Terence McKenna

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