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.
LORD BYRONLet joy be unconfined.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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