Lord Byron Quotes on Philosophy
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There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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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.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
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But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.
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For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager.
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Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.
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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?