Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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 imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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