If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
LORD BYRONThey used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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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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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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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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