A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
LORD BYRONI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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