Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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