I awoke one day to find myself famous.
LORD BYRONCome what may, I have been blest.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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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.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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 busy have no time for tears.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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