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.
LORD BYRONWho falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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The busy have no time for tears.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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