I learned to love despair.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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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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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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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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