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.
LORD BYRONFriendship is Love without his wings!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The devil was the first democrat
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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 learned to love despair.
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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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