The 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.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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