Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRONGone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I learned to love despair.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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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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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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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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