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!
LORD BYRONI have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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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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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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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