There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
LORD BYRONWho then will explain the explanation?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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Socrates 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.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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