Self praise is no praise at all.
LORD BYRONTis 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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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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