The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
LORD BYRONBut 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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