I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
LORD BYRONI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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