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He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

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The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;-- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

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Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

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In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

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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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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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