Self praise is no praise at all.
LORD BYRONThere are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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