You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
LORD BYRONMen think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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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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