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O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see read more
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries?
His chain some furious madman breaks;
He comes--I see his glaring eyes:
Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.
Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,
Such screams to hear, such sights to see!
My brain, my brain,--I know, I know
I am not mad but soon shall be.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
I teach that all are men are mad.
[Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
Some are born mad. Some remain so.
We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
