Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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 art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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