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.
LORD BYRONAlways laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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 timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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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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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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