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
LORD BYRONRoll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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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 heart will break, but broken live on.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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