Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
LORD BYRONLet us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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