15 Lord Byron Quotes on Philosophy

Lord Byron quotes on philosophy

21. There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

23. Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

37. Because He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow? I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter- Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.

44. Seek out - less often sought than found - A Soldier's Grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy Ground, And take thy Rest.

58. Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

61. The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

63. Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

65. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,- The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.

70. The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

73. I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

87. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.

99. But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.

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

112. Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.

118. Where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?