She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
LORD BYRONMen think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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 timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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I learned to love despair.
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