Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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.”
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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