Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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