Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONWho falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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