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 BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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