Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONWhat 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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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