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 drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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