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The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask ...
How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hil ...
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silen ...
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
It has no future but itself--
Its infinite contain
Its past--enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference ...
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic ...
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of the ...
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses ...
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