Lord Byron Quotes, Dream Quotes, Joy Quotes

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

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With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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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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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

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This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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And hold up to the sun my little taper.

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A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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