A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONWhat 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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