You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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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 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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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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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