Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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The devil was the first democrat
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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