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 BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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