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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

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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Crave Drive Even Exist Feel Game Great Life Object Pain Sensation Though Void
The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Compassion Dew Tera
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Answer Gold Knowledge Letter Need Only Pleasure Reading
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Deny Doubt Everything Nothing Off Pagan Shake Short Something
Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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Declare Discovery Explore Fell Grand Great Himself Invention Mind Ocean Only Proverb Scientist Shell Truth Youth
Let joy be unconfined.
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Joy Let Unconfined
O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Beautiful Blue Ether Increase Light Mass Multiply Unimaginable Wildence
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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Aspect Beauty Best Bright Cloydless Dark Eye Meet Night Skies Starry Walk
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Age Being Good Hand Joyous Old Play Stop Work
I learned to love despair.
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Despair Learn Love
You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Gave Heart Key Knock Love Make
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Apple Ate Demand Dinner Eve Much Since
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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All Death Die Hateful Innate Instinct Invisible Life Live Living Loathsome Make Nanjing Singing Sve
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Close Deep Ever Scar Without Wound
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Friendship Love May Often Susbside
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Knowledge Mean Money Now Power Say Think Use

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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