How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Richard Francis Burton
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There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.
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As palace mirror'd in the stream, as vapour mingled with the skies, So weaves the brain of mortal man the tangled web of Truth and Lies.
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With God's foreknowledge man's free will! What monster-growth of human brain, What powers of light shall ever pierce this puzzle dense with words inane?
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
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Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
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Th' immortal mind of mortal man! We hear yon loud-lunged Zealot cry; Whose mind but means his sum of thought, an essence of atomic I. Thought is the work of brain and nerve, in small-skulled idiot poor and mean; In sickness sick, in sleep asleep, and dead when Death lets drop the scene.
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the I, When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:
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Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.
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What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?
Faith mountains move I hear: I see the practice of the world unheed The foolish vaunt, the blatant boast that serves our vanity to feed. Faith stands unmoved; and why? Because man's silly fancies still remain, And will remain till wiser man the day-dreams of his youth disdain.
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