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The image upon the retina is nothing, if there be not an inward sense to discern it.
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This quote highlights the necessity of an inner sense for true comprehension of visual stimuli.
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What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
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