A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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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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 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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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