To fly from, need not be to hate mankind
Lord Byron
hate mankind fly
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
women marriage devil angels
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! It is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b
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Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: 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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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
man nature love
Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?
truth opinions made
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager
men opinions losing
Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
live passion
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
poetry
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether
politics consistency indifference
Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer
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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another
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Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings
romance give paint
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
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