There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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More Lord Byron Quotes
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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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