There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.
George Gordon Byron
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, thou livest forever
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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Lou Gehrig Delivers Farewell to Baseball Address at Yankee Stadium
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn?t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there?s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven?t had a good time,?Why do you seek to add more years, which woul
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
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