This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
LORD BYRONWhy do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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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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