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.
LORD BYRONSelf praise is no praise at all.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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