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.
LORD BYRONA drop of ink may make a million think.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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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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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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