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.
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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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