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?
LORD BYRONThe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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