All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
LORD BYRONSorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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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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I learned to love despair.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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