No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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As one intimately connected with the drama of guilt and sorrow in which they had all been actors, and well entitled, therefore, to be present as its closing scene.
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Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.
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Mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike. It was to teach them, that the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.
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Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
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“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
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I like to think of it as the original “would you love me if I was a worm?”.
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”
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I want to have an argument with someone and I want them to curse so I can finally say “Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary”.
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