One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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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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