Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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I learned to love despair.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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