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Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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Art is to look at not to criticize.

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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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

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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.

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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

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Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but 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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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

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