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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity...more

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Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death

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If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...