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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

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And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. 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 we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

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One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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