There is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD BYRONFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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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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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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