It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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.
LORD BYRONI 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.
LORD BYRONSelf praise is no praise at all.
LORD BYRONWho falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
LORD BYRONThink not I am what I appear.
LORD BYRONWhat an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONAnd I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
LORD BYRONBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
LORD BYRONIn solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD BYRONA small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
LORD BYRONIt is when we think we lead that we are most led.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRONThere’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
LORD BYRONI deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON