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!
LORD BYRONIt is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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We 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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To have joy, one must share it.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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