You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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