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.
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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 great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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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 small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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