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Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...more

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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

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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a conseque...more