For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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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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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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