I am not now That which I have been.
LORD BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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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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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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