This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
LORD BYRONOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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 slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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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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