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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, alth...  
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.   Death
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't ...  
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, t...  
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are love...  
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.  
A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.  
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster ...  
Absence - that common cure of love.  
Adversity is the first path to truth.  
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!  
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.  
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the ...  
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of se...  
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambiti...  
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly...  
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smile...  
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon...  
But - Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, inform us truly, have they ...  
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the ...  
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew, upon a...  
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of ...  
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - a...  
Fame is the thirst of youth.  
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.  
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.  
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, an...  
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My grea...  
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.  
Friendship is Love without his wings!  
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed peo...  
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged ...  
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of tho...  
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as d...  
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man ...  
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good ac...  
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...  
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as...  
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.  
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure o...  
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being alway...  
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and noth...  
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by exper...  
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much...   Marriage
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called...  
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises fr...  
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too...  
I love not man the less, but Nature more.  
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.  
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than ...  
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mu...  
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an e...  
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.  
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.  
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been...  
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.  
In short, he was a perfect cavaliero, and to his very valet seemed a h...  
In solitude, where we are least alone.  
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my s...  
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as w...  
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.  
John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, a carrier who carrie...  
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee no...  
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own aven...  
Let these describe the indescribable.  
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.  
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then ...  
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.  
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can...  
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tende...  
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. I...  
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxic...  
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the...  
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.  
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothi...  
My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the micr...  
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few ...  
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of vi...  
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!  
O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake...  
Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and...  
Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leav...  
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclos...  
Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?  
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people...  
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bon...  
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.  
Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.  
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep ove...  
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bor...  
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than...  
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, ...  
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in ...  
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.  
The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little...  
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.  
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - ...  
The busy have no time for tears.  
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to g...  
The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with t...  
The dew of compassion is a tear.  
The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water...  
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the ...  
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low...  
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremo...  
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!  
The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beas...  
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for yo...  
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the l...   Nature
There is no instinct like that of the heart.  
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I de...  
There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is w...  
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true rel...  
They never fail who die in a great cause.  
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for s...  
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall...  
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau id...  
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, an...  
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner...  
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.  
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.  
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my si...  
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.  
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good ...  
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed whic...  
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarsen...  
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yours...  
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle de...  
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eat...  
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling str...  
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be e...  
Who loves, raves.  
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?  
Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the grow...  
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire...  
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire w...  
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thund...  
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not ad...