Earth took her shining station as a star In Heaven's dark hall high up the crowd of worlds.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Courage enlarges cowardice, diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.