"I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
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"A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think."
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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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"Let joy be unconfined."
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"Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on."
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"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it."
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"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
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"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
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"You should have a softer pillow than my heart."
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"Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then."
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"Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people."
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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 everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence."
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"The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space."
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"I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture."
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"Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best."
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"Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year."
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"A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty"
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"As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands."
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"I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South"
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"This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo."
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