Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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