Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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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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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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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 when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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