Come what may, I have been blest.
LORD BYRONWhat 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.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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