The best prophet of the future is the past.
LORD BYRONAnd I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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I learned to love despair.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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