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“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.”

Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade”

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“My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'”

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

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“Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never”

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“Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure”

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“I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”

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“. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.”

Herman Melville quotes (American short-story Writer, Novelist and Poet. Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick. 1819-1891)

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“I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“A light broke in upon my brain, - / It was the carol of a bird; / It ceased, and then it came again, / The sweetest song ear ever heard.”

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“I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

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