Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRONNewton, (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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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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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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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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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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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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