The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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 great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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Who then will explain the explanation?
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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