Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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 tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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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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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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