Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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 first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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