A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
LORD BYRONBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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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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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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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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