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... facts , marshalled in order of time , which , as they pass the little point in the universe where I am , are the realities of the present . We grope for them before they reach us , in vain efforts to know them while they are yet in the ...
... facts , marshalled in order of time , which , as they pass the little point in the universe where I am , are the realities of the present . We grope for them before they reach us , in vain efforts to know them while they are yet in the ...
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... facts than what are called realities . What are these but a yester- WHAT ARE FACTS ? 5 day's newspaper , to be 4 DREAMS .
... facts than what are called realities . What are these but a yester- WHAT ARE FACTS ? 5 day's newspaper , to be 4 DREAMS .
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... facts are but their symptoms . Dreams are called by many names , -love , religion , patriotism , honour , lust , passion , avarice , ambition , and they are the great facts . Every man - even the small , the dull , the poor has his ...
... facts are but their symptoms . Dreams are called by many names , -love , religion , patriotism , honour , lust , passion , avarice , ambition , and they are the great facts . Every man - even the small , the dull , the poor has his ...
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... fact for a man is death - his removal from the standpoint whence he views the procession which files up and passes on ; and yet there are dreams of many kinds , good and bad , for which ordinary sane men are willing to accept the risk ...
... fact for a man is death - his removal from the standpoint whence he views the procession which files up and passes on ; and yet there are dreams of many kinds , good and bad , for which ordinary sane men are willing to accept the risk ...
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... has not been dulled by too much contact with actual facts , we are perhaps better qualified than afterwards to form broad views and express them with confidence . A THE SMALL - SCALE MAP . 45 certain bold disregard 44 INDIA .
... has not been dulled by too much contact with actual facts , we are perhaps better qualified than afterwards to form broad views and express them with confidence . A THE SMALL - SCALE MAP . 45 certain bold disregard 44 INDIA .
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