Think not I am what I appear.
LORD BYRONSocrates 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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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