There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
LORD BYRONIt is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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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 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.
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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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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I am not now That which I have been.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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