Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
LORD BYRONFor truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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