Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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