There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONTruth 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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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