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.
LORD BYRONThey used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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I learned to love despair.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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