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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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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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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

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The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

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

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

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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

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Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

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Invisible things are the only realities.

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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

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