Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
LORD BYRONI 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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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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