Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
LORD BYRONThe devil was the first democrat
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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