There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
LORD BYRONTo have joy, one must share it.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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.
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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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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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