If 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 BYRONMan is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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.
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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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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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