Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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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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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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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I learned to love despair.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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