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I
would not always reason.
The
straight path wearies us with the never-varying lines, and we
grow melancholy.
I
would make reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit
patiently by the wayside, while I trace the mazes of pleasant
wilderness around me.
She
should be my counselor, but not my tyrant. For the spirit
needs impulses from a deeper source than hers; and there are
notions, in the mind of man, that she must look upon with awe.
~William
Cullen Bryant~
(1794-1878)
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