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!
LORD BYRONArmenian is the language to speak with God.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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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 fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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