Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
LORD BYRONO 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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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She 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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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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