Lord Byron Quotes, Fall Quotes, Science Quotes

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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I see before me the gladiator lie.

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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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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He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

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