Date: 1860
"The thoughts and temptations of the last month should all be flung away into an unvisited chamber of memory: there was nothing to allure her now; duty would be easy, and all the old calm purposes would reign peacefully once more."
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Date: c. 1862
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- / The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- / The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,' / And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?"
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Date: 1871-2, 1874
"How was it that in the weeks since her marriage, Dorothea had not distinctly observed but felt with a stifling depression, that the large vistas and wide fresh air which she had dreamed of finding in her husband's mind were replaced by anterooms and winding passages which seemed to lead nowhither?"
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Date: 1871-2, 1874
"Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attrac...
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Date: 1890
"The soul selects her own society, / Then shuts the door; / On her divine majority / Obtrude no more."
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Date: 1892
"So, safer, guess, with just my soul / Upon the window-pane / Where other creatures put their eyes, / Incautious of the sun."
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Date: 1892
"A deed knocks first at thought, / And then it knocks at will."
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Date: 1892
"It then goes out an act, / Or is entombed so still / That only to the ear of God / Its doom is audible."
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Date: 1892
"The body grows outside,-- / The more convenient way,-- / That if the spirit like to hide, / Its temple stands alway // Ajar, secure, inviting."
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Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place."
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