What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
LORD BYRONThe fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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 existence.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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