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 BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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What 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!
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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