Lord Byron Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Past Quotes

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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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

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Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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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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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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