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.
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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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