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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Reflection makes men cowards.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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