The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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 tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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