Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
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Other Quotes by "George Gordon Byron"

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Tags: religion, pagan
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Tags: writing
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.
Tags: lord-byron, hope
All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.
Tags: twin, happiness, don-juan
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Tags: sacrifice, death
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