Lord Byron Quotes, Love Quotes, Life Quotes

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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I am ashes where once I was fire.

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