A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
LORD BYRONWe 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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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