A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
LORD BYRONAdversity is the first path to truth.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I learned to love despair.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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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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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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