The universe is all of one mind. Though my twin-brother sware to me,
by the blazing sun in heaven at noon-day, that Oro is not; yet would
he belie the thing he intended to express. And who lives that
blasphemes? What jargon of human sounds so puissant as to insult the
unutterable majesty divine? Is Oro's honor in the keeping of Mardi?--
(Mardi, 1849)
C. "But who lives, who may not be wounded through another!—Then
so be it! let us treat the whole world as it has done us, and—forget it!
I dare say, nay, I am sure, that beyond some family ties, there is not
upon the wide earth a heart in sympathy with our good or ill; whose even
beat would be as much disturbed, were this wild sod to cover us
forever, as at the most ephemeral of the trifling cares which make up
their petty lives."
(Scenes Beyond the Western Border, August 1852); and Scenes and Adventures in the Army)
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