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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
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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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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."Eleonora"
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.Dream Within a Dream
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Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.Tamerlane, Part II
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.The Gold Bug
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There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.The Premature Burial
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