What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRON
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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