What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONThey truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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