Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRONShe walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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