What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
LORD BYRONHeaven gives its favourites-early death.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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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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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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