The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRONWhat an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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