Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
LORD BYRONRoll 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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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.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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!
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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