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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
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I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The poetry of speech.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
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Critics are already made.
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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.