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!
LORD BYRONWe 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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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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