Truth 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.
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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