Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONTyranny is for the worst of treasons.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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I learned to love despair.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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