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.
LORD BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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