Tag: Lord Byron
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Lord Byron
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron
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They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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But 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.
Lord Byron
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron