America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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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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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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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Who then will explain the explanation?
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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