The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers.
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Life is absorbed in its beatitude,A meditative mage beneath the moon
Ah!
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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Arise, O Man, in thy strength!
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We --- oh what lingering doubt or fear betrayed
My life to fate!
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More, this our noble element
Of fire in nature, love in spirit, unkenned
Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end.
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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion. . .
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