Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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