Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
LORD BYRONThe devil was the first democrat
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I am not now That which I have been.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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 slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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