“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
