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

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

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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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.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. 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 experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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