I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
LORD BYRONIt is when we think we lead that we are most led.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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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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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 dew of compassion is a tear.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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