The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
LORD BYRONShe walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The devil was the first democrat
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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