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• Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth
  but actions are our epochs. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Manfred, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• The little sweet doth kill much bitterness.
• Thou, silent form, doth tease us out of thought As doth eternity
  Cold Pastoral! -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- Ode on a Grecian U...
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• Why do you have all this anger toward me? A girl with long, dark hair broke my heart a long time ago.
  Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime....
• I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
  Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read....
• Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 5...
• The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
  -- Zeno...