America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONWhat an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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