Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
LORD BYRONThe 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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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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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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I learned to love despair.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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