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.
LORD BYRONGood work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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