Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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