I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
LORD BYRONSocrates 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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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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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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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