Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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