America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONEat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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