I am not now That which I have been.
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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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Truth 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.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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