If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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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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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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 something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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