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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

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One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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Even in the grave, all is not lost.

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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

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But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

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