Lord Byron Quotes

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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…
• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
• I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
• Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
• Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a…
• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other…
• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave…
• Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
• There is no instinct like that of the heart.
• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
• Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
• Absence - that common cure of love.

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