What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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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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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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