Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONWe 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?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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.
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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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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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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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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