Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
LORD BYRONTill taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What 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!
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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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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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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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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