Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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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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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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