A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
LORD BYRONThe drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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