And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
LORD BYRONThat music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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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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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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