Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

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The Tuft Of Kelp

All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea
If purer for that, O Weed,
Bitterer, too, are ye?

poem by Herman Melville
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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Gold in the Mountain

Gold in the mountain,
And gold in the glen,
And greed in the heart,
Heaven having no part,
And unsatisfied men.

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

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