Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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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.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. 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 experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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