What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONHatred is the madness of the heart.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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