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!
LORD BYRONWhat 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!
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONThere is music in all things, if men had ears.
LORD BYRONI have not loved the world, nor the world me.
LORD BYRONHatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
LORD BYRONTo have joy, one must share it.
LORD BYRONFew things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
LORD BYRONMan is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
LORD BYRONEternity forbids thee to forget.
LORD BYRONMen think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
LORD BYRONBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
LORD BYRONI deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRON