The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONGood 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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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