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.
LORD BYRONThe tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The devil was the first democrat
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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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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