Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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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.”
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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