Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long leagues to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated Ease can never hope to share.

George Gordon Byron
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  1. In secret we met -In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears

  2. The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

  3. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

  4. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  5. Tis strange, -but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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