Quote by George Byron
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile

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. – George Byron

Other quotes by George Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. – George Byron

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Music
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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. – George Byron

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Wisdom
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. – George Byron

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Religion
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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When you travel so many weeks a year, its always nice to have a home-cooked meal. – Maria Sharapova

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Travel

The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel. – Kenneth Koch

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Travel

When youre an artist, theres always a moment in your life when you think youre not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, youre just depressed, so you dont move, so you dont change. So youre not inspired. – Melanie Laurent

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Travel

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want – but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. – Dan Stevens

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Travel

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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. – François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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Appearance

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life. – Alicia Keys

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I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music. – Michael Schenker

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Learning