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.
LORD BYRONI 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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 busy have no time for tears.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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The devil was the first democrat
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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