Date: 1800
The whole heart may be poured forth in a letter
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Date: 1800
The soul may be thrown into tumults
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Date: 1800
"The image of Achsa filled my fancy, but it was the harbinger of nothing but humiliation and sorrow."
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Date: 1800
"My curiosity grew more eager, in proportion as it was supplied with food, and every day added strength to the assurance that I was no insignificant and worthless being."
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Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
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Date: 1800
"Her mind was indeed more fertile than my own in those topics which take away its keenest edge from affliction."
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Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
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Date: March 1843
"The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one."
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Date: March 1843
"Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments."
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