I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
LORD BYRONThere is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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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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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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