If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The devil was the first democrat
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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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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