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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Who loves, raves.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Absence - that common cure of love.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.