Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
LORD BYRONA timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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 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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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