Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Roll 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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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