"A quiet conscience makes one so serene."
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"Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company."
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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."
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"What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets."
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"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal."
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"A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts."
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"Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor."
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"They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness."
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"Who then will explain the explanation?"
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"Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion."
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"They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are."
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"Sweet is revenge-especially to women."
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"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"
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"Land of lost gods and godlike men."
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"Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past."
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