You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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