I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONFriendship is Love without his wings!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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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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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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