Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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The devil was the first democrat
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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