A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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