Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRONMan is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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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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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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