The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONBe warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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