'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner.... 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast,' replied Ethan Brand.... 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God.'
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So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
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Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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See those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth Then recognize your Shame.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
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