Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONI 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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