What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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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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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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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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