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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar."
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
"When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World."
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
"The heart will break, but broken live on."
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
"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."
"And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear."
"There is no instinct like that of the heart."
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
"It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."
"The best prophet of the future is the past."
"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after."
"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."
"Absence - that common cure of love."