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.
From Lord Byron
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
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