All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
LORD BYRONThose who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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