The best prophet of the future is the past.
LORD BYRONWe 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?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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We 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.
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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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