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!
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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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 stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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