Poems List
“It is very lonesome at the summit!” “Like a man’s life, when he has climbed to eminence.”
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A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.
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A man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.
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A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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America is now given over to a damned mob of scribbling women.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places—whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest—where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
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EASY READING IS DAMN HARD WRITING.
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