Absence - that common cure of love.
From Lord Byron
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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