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“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”

Men Pain Names Given Heaven Pleasure Fire Fate Poet Findings Late Ill Feel Good Too Late Prometheus

Author:Lord Byron

“An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.”

Past Hours Pleasure Fate Sorrow Benefits Relate

Book:Virgil: the Eclogues

Source: Virgil: the Eclogues

“Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!”

Wells Values Social Pleasure Moral Fate Taxes Universal Burden

Author:Alfred de Musset

“For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.”

Knows Men Littles Body Pleasure Fate Capable Curious Loan

Book:Jurgen

Source: Jurgen

“One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.”

Pleasure Fate Compelled Malicious

Book:Cool Memories II, 1987-1990

Source: Cool Memories II, 1987-1990