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.
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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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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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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