The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRONThe heart will break, but broken live on.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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