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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs
The lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee!
...
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:
So didst thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness.
England hath need of thee!
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Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:
So didst thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness.
London, 1802
And when the stream
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
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