A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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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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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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