Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONI awoke one day to find myself famous.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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