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 BYRONThis is the age of oddities let loose.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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