Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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smile at these vain questions. Thus do mortals deify, as it were, a
mere shadow of themselves, a spectre of human reason, and ask of that to unveil the mysteries which Divine Intelligence has revealed so far as needful to our guidance, and hid the rest. Farewell, Monsieur du Miroir. Of you, perhaps, as of many men, it may be doubted whether you are the wiser, though your whole business is REFLECTION. |
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