The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
LORD BYRONSince Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Socrates 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.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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