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There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.


Lord Byron

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JEREMY CLARKSON Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way ever...
ALICE MUNRO I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
ANDREW RANNELLS When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
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I learned that if there is on...
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DEYTH BANGER That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget
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EDWARD EVERETT HALE Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I cannot confirm or deny. It's in erasable ink. I don't know what they're so upset about.
MATHIEU SCHNEIDER I did all I could, but there was nothing more in there for me. I had light cramps in my arm. Of cour...
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LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
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LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
LORD BYRON I wish he would explain his explanation
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LORD BYRON Fame is the thirst of youth.
LORD BYRON For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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LORD BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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LORD BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD BYRON The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRON Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
LORD BYRON I love not man the less, but Nature more.
LORD BYRON Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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LORD BYRON The heart will break, but broken live on.
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LORD BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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LORD BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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LORD BYRON Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints t...
LORD BYRON Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
LORD BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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LORD BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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LORD BYRON Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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LORD BYRON Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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LORD BYRON What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
LORD BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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LORD BYRON A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
LORD BYRON Goodnight
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
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LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
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LORD BYRON Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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LORD BYRON Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
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LORD BYRON He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
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LORD BYRON He said / Little, but to the purpose.
LORD BYRON The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
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LORD BYRON And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
LORD BYRON Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves ...
LORD BYRON Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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LORD BYRON The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
LORD BYRON I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
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LORD BYRON The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
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LORD BYRON There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange
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LORD BYRON I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloyin...
LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
LORD BYRON Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
LORD BYRON But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o...
LORD BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past
LORD BYRON 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
LORD BYRON Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
LORD BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
LORD BYRON To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
LORD BYRON Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I r...
LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote
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LORD BYRON When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew th...
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
LORD BYRON We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
LORD BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
LORD BYRON A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
LORD BYRON Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m...
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD BYRON The very best of vineyards is the cellar
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
LORD BYRON I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
LORD BYRON Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
LORD BYRON Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
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