Think not I am what I appear.
LORD BYRONNewton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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