If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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