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Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should be...more

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But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what t...more

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She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melanc...more

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We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest aff...more

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Though solitude, endured too long,Bids youthful joys too soon decay,Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue,And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thou...more

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. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling...more

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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.