The best prophet of the future is the past.
LORD BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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