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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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Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no exi...more

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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 ...more

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.