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.”
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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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