If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRONThe 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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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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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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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