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 BYRONThe great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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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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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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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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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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