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"They who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awaking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."

"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. [...]How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?–from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their own origin in the ecstasies which might have been."

"I knew my victim's habit of reading in bed. I knew, too, that his apartment was narrow and ill-ventilated. But I need not vex vou with impertinent details."

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"We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken today, and yet we put it off until tomorrow; and why?"

"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."

"The impious crowd of torturers has nurtured the long furies of harmless blood, unsatisfied.
Now my homeland is at rest, now the cave of death has been broken,
Where death was terrible, life and salvation are open."

"Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet—mad am I not—and very surely do i not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul."

"When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden,the waves in a strong gale, when she is going large, seem always to slip from beneath her—which appears strange to a landsman—and this is what is called riding, in sea phrase."

"When any doubt was entertained of his veracity, 'as sure as there is a sea where the ship itself will grow in bulk like the living body of the seaman.'"