"Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer."
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
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"Think not I am what I appear."
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"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
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"The busy have no time for tears."
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"I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!"
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"We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."
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"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
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"I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains."
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"Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth."
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"Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!"
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"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."
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"Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages."
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"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
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"To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
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"Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore."
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"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour."
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"Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!"
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"The French courage proceeds from vanity"
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