Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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 drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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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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