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.
LORD BYRONBut words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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