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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

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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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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

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The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

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