Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
LORD BYRONThe fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Think not I am what I appear.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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