I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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