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.
LORD BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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 an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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