the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

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