The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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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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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I learned to love despair.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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