If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
LORD BYRONIf a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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