If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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