One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRONLet us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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 awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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