A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONNewton, (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.”
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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