“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“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.”
Nature“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
Men“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
Change“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Happiness“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
God“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
Hope“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
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