Lord Byron Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Struggle Quotes

It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

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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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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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In solitude, when we are least alone.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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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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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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