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 BYRONWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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 heart will break, but broken live on.
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