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.
LORD BYRONEternity forbids thee to forget.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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