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.
LORD BYRONAnd gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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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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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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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