Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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