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 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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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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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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