Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRONI stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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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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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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