Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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