And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
LORD BYRONSociety is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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