Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRONOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRONTill taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
LORD BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
LORD BYRONWhy I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRONTis 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
LORD BYRONAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
LORD BYRONIf I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
LORD BYRONThe tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
LORD BYRONIf a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONSocrates 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.
LORD BYRONThere 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.
LORD BYRONThis is the age of oddities let loose.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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