I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRONThere is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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