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 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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The devil was the first democrat
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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