I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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