What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
LORD BYRONWhat a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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