They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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