The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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
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The devil was the first democrat
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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