A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
LORD BYRONSince Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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