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!
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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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