What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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