Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man it is -- I really scarce know what but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
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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.Lord Byron
Adversity is the first path to truth He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty.
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O gold I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapor.
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My soul is dark - Oh!
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The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap I slumber not the thorn is in my couch Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
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