There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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