The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRONFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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