The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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!
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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