Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
LORD BYRONSociety is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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