The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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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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