Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
LORD BYRONI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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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 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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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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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