We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
LORD BYRONThere is music in all things, if men had ears.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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