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.
LORD BYRONThis is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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