If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
LORD BYRONA celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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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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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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