The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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