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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending q...more

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its content. We live on a placid island of ignoranc...more

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There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous aether, indeterminate,Yet linked with all the laws ...more

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Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longing...more

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool reposeTo mellowing landscape, and to ca...more

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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inhe...more

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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all...more

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No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide