Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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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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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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