The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONIt is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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