For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
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