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 BYRONIn solitude, when we are least alone.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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