What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONWhat a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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 should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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