Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONThink not I am what I appear.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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 is music in all things, if men had ears.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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