A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
LORD BYRON
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.”
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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