And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
LORD BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
LORD BYRONRoll 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 BYRONSelf praise is no praise at all.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONThe tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
LORD BYRONNewton, (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.”
LORD BYRONI only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRONI stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRONSociety is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONSorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
LORD BYRONI have not loved the world, nor the world me.
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRON