“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
— George Byron
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“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.”
— George Byron
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“Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.”
— George Byron
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“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
— George Byron
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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
— George Byron
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“Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.”
— George Byron
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“Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
— George Byron
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“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
— George Byron
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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.”
— George Byron
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