Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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 among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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