Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONA woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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