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!
LORD BYRONI am not now That which I have been.
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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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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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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The devil was the first democrat
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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