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Life Quotes by Lord Byron

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Lord Byron paints life as a star hovering between night and morning, balanced on the horizon’s edge. He likens existence to an enchanted cup that sparkles near the brim, and he warns that a single thought can compress years into an hour. He also doubts any revealed religion, calling life enough on its own.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

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Life is too short for chess.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

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

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“I awoke one morning to find myself famous.”

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Sometimes it seems like we're living in a prison & the crime is how much we hate ourselves.

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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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“the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.”

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In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth…

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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of…

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Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its…

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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…

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…

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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…

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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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Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as…

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's…

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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may…

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Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life…

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“ We'll Go No More A-roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be…

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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is…

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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet…

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the…

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

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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

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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.

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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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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in…

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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who…

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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…

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved…

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…

“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since…

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness…