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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
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Been Known Lord Mercantile Politician Wait Written
The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Compassion Dew Tera
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Also Evil Generally Must Mystery Suspect
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Few People Possession Reason Say Unreasonable
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Alone Appetite Fresh Get Only Out
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Ears Men Music
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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Always Cheap Existence Laugh Medicine Philosophy Side Sunny Understood Well
The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Ache Along Country Eternity Leave Limpid People Person Reviry Think Unbound
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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Clearly Convincing Find Himself Illusion Many Optical Out Prove Tiger Wrong
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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Deepest Know Knowledge Life Mourn Must Sorrow Tree
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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Agreeable Existing Feeling Government Most Politics Setestation Shortest Simplest Summary Utter
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Advantage Give Later Lover Man May Expect Sooner Tyrant Woman
O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Beautiful Blue Ether Increase Light Mass Multiply Unimaginable Wildence
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Every Mind Mistake Mortal Scratch Timid Wound
There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Away Give Joy Like Take World
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Always Company Could Feel never Read Want
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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All Custom Depth Found Gem Scale Surface Thing Truth Weighted
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Blown Brain Day Given Good Law Many Moter Pleasure Recollection
In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Alone at Least Solitude
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Die Learn Society Solitude Teach
My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Add Head Heart Passion Rhyme
The devil was the first democrat
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Democrat Devil First
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Friendship Love May Often Susbside
Absence – that common cure of love.
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Absence Common Cure Love
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Divine Form Man Part Pure Soul Steam Trouble
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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Beautiful Extension Faculties Fine Perception
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Coarseness Country Force Freedom Model Moderation People Rudeness

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