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 BYRONShe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I am not now That which I have been.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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