Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
LORD BYRONAll tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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