Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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 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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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 tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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