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.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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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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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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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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