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.
LORD BYRONFew things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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 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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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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 dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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.
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