What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONHeaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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