Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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