One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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