How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the...
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For my own part, I have never had a though which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it.
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The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, 'This is indeed Life ...
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
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