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.
LORD BYRONThe devil was the first democrat
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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