What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONFriendship is Love without his wings!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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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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