Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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