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
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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