All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
LORD BYRONA mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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