A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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More Lord Byron Quotes
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Think not I am what I appear.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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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 devil was the first democrat
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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