Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
LORD BYRONTruth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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