A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
LORD BYRONI live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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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 live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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