Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRONI awoke one day to find myself famous.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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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 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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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