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!
LORD BYRONWhat 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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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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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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