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.
LORD BYRONThere’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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I am not now That which I have been.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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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 best prophet of the future is the past.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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