A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.


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