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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.


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CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
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LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
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LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
LORD BYRON There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on...
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