"With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms."
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"Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails."
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"The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven."
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"I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us."
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"I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen."
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"Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?"
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"Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner."
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"It is when we think we lead that we are most led."
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"There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."
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"What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman."
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"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."
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"This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality."
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"Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them."
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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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"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant."
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"There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken."
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"I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”."
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"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."
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"For the night Shows stars and women in a better light."
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