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?
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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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There 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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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I learned to love despair.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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