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.
LORD BYRONIt is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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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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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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