Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Newton, (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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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