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.
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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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I 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.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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