What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONReason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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