Who then will explain the explanation?
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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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 simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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