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.
LORD BYRONThink not I am what I appear.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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