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.
LORD BYRONI live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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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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