Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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