It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
LORD BYRONSince Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The devil was the first democrat
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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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.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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