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!
LORD BYRONThe poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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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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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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I learned to love despair.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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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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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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