I am not now That which I have been.
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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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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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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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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