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 BYRONIf I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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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 great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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