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.”
LORD BYRONHearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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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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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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