Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
LORD BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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