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.
LORD BYRONSorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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There 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.
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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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