A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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!
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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