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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

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As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

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