In solitude, when we are least alone.
LORD BYRONWe have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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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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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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