George Gordon Byron Quotes
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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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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Allah given
To lift from earth our low desire.
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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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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five.
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I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever
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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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He who is only just is cruel.
Who on earth could live were all judged justly
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
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For what were all these country patriots born
to hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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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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They never fail who die in a great cause.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.