A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
LORD BYRONEternity forbids thee to forget.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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We 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.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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