And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
LORD BYRONI have not loved the world, nor the world me.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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 first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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