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My life closed twice before its close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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The mere sense of living is joy enough.

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I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

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The fog is rising.

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

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I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

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It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

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There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

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Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgments upon them.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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As soon as there was two there was pride

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Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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