I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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