Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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I learned to love despair.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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