Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
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Prose - words in their best order Poetry - the best words in their best order.
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
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