But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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I learned to love despair.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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