I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
LORD BYRONBut 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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The devil was the first democrat
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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