America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
LORD BYRONThe poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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