Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
LORD BYRONWhy 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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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