It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
LORD BYRONAmerica is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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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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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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