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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general re...more

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevan...more

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In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity...more

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Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hat...more

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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of prob...more

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.