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The burden of the incommunicable.


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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.



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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.



It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.



Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.



All that is literature seeks to communicate power

All that is literature seeks to communicate power



Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!



There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.



Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.



Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.



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Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.





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