I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
LORD BYRONA mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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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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