I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
LORD BYRONWhat’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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 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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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