Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRONNewton, (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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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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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.
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