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.
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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