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.
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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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