Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRONThose who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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 a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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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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