I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

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

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

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Let joy be unconfined.

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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