Self praise is no praise at all.
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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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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I learned to love despair.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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