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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

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I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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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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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

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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 see before me the gladiator lie.

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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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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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