The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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!
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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