A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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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The devil was the first democrat
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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