A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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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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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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