Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
LORD BYRONBut what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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 timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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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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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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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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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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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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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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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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