Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRONAbsence – that common cure of love.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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I learned to love despair.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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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.
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The devil was the first democrat
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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