Inspirational Quotes

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Lord Byron Quotes

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
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 themselves in such a state?
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
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.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Emotional ComplexityFriendshipLoveRelationshipsRomance A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.