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“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”
“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”
“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance t...”
“Mans own youth is the worlds youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earths granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he lik...”
“Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it, until after it is gone. But sometimes--always, I suspect, unless one is exceedingly unfortunate--there comes a sense of second yout...”
“That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has ...”
“I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.”
“Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed is...”
“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will und...”
“But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.”
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirits joy and...”
“What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?""No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?”
“The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!”
“And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated wa...”
“That Archangel, now, " Miriam continued; "how fair he looks, with his unruffled wings, with his unhacked sword, and clad in his bright armor, and that exquisitely fitting sky-blue tunic, cut in the...”
“Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.”
“Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.”
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.”
“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.”
