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.”
LORD BYRONOf religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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