I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
LORD BYRONWe are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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 devil was the first democrat
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