The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
LORD BYRONI am not now That which I have been.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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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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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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