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.
LORD BYRONIf I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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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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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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