Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONA drop of ink may make a million think.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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?
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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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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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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The devil was the first democrat
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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