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.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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