Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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