A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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More Lord Byron Quotes
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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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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.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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