I learned to love despair.
LORD BYRONWe are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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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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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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