Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
LORD BYRONFew things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
More Lord Byron Quotes
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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I learned to love despair.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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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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Who then will explain the explanation?
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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