Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONI am not now That which I have been.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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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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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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