I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONThat music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
LORD BYRONThose who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
LORD BYRONIt is when we think we lead that we are most led.
LORD BYRONI awoke one day to find myself famous.
LORD BYRONSociety is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONOpinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
LORD BYRONSocrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONWhat’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
LORD BYRONThere is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRONBe warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
LORD BYRONThis is the age of oddities let loose.
LORD BYRON