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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Lord Byron

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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All Custom Depth Found Gem Scale Surface Thing Truth Weighted
Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Always Damm Description Disgust Statistics
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Dry Fame Gore Honest Most Sea Shedding Single Tear
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Deepest Know Knowledge Life Mourn Must Sorrow Tree
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Beyond Mortal Mortality Seek Thing
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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Been Known Lord Mercantile Politician Wait Written
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Advantage Give Later Lover Man May Expect Sooner Tyrant Woman
The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Compassion Dew Tera
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Alone Appetite Fresh Get Only Out
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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All Believe Chose Fool Impostors Men Most Mystery Sect Understand Written
Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Call Hate Misanthrope Them
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Any Believe Immortality Nothing Religion
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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All Death Die Hateful Innate Instinct Invisible Life Live Living Loathsome Make Nanjing Singing Sve
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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Declare Discovery Explore Fell Grand Great Himself Invention Mind Ocean Only Proverb Scientist Shell Truth Youth
I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Emotion Feel Loved World
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Dying Four Living Made Question Sacred Spirit Value Worth

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