What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONWe are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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