For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.
Lord Byron
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
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Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
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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 the experience which is deemed so weighty
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Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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