Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
LORD BYRONRoll 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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