"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
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"A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound."
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"Armenian is the language to speak with God."
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"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."
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"Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.""
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"They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money."
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"There is music in all things, if men had ears."
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"And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!"
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."
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"A drop of ink may make a million think."
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"My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes."
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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."
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"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."
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"Eternity forbids thee to forget."
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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 The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity."
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"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
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"It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion."
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