Lord Byron Quotes, Hope Quotes, Truth Quotes

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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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

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But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

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When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

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