Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
From Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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