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.”
LORD BYRONIf a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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