The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
LORD BYRONThe lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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