I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONThere is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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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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The devil was the first democrat
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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, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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I learned to love despair.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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