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.
LORD BYRONAdversity is the first path to truth.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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