Lord Byron Quotes, Men Quotes, Imagination Quotes

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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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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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

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

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

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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

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

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

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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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Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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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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