Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
LORD BYRONI 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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