I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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