What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONAdversity is the first path to truth.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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