My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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The devil was the first democrat
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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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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