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.
LORD BYRONIt is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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