The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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The devil was the first democrat

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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Happiness was born a twin.

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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