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.
LORD BYRONO 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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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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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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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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