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  1. There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with pers…
  2. We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his a…
  3. I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I hav…
  4. The ancient teachers of this science... promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know t…
  5. My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some e…
  6. I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being;…
  7. I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady p…
  8. One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with …

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