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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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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 every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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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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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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In solitude, when we are least alone.

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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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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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

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I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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