The busy have no time for tears.
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.”
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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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?
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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