Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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I 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.
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