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.
LORD BYRONFew things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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