If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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