In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as th...
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever bee...
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He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?
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how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitude--utter solitude withou...
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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and...
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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a tr...
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All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.
