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 BYRONA woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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