The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRONThere’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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