"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?"

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages."

Byron, Lord on philosophers and philosophy   

"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

Byron, Lord on pleasure
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"There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken."

Byron, Lord on women
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"It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?"

Byron, Lord on memory   

"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."

Byron, Lord on laughter
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"History is the devil's scripture."

Byron, Lord on history and historians
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?"

Byron, Lord on poetry and poets   

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on winter
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"Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Ruskin, John on weather   

"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never."

Garrison, William Lloyd on principles   

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

Jung, Carl on pride
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"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."

Fuller, Thomas on pride   

"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt."

Franklin, Benjamin on pride
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"It ain't bragging if you can do it."

Dean, Dizzy on pride
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"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."

Colton, Charles Caleb on pride
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"And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on pride
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Bronte, Emily on pride
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"Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted."

Bible on pride
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"When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it."

Baily, Bernard on pride
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"Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. [Proverbs 16:18]"

Bible on pride   

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

Moliere on fate
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on pride
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."

Levant, Oscar on pride
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"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."

Levant, Oscar on pride   

"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."

Voltaire on pride
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"We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame."

Unknown, Source on pride   

"I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on pride
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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on pride
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"Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."

Saunders, Frederick on pride   

"Pride is the mask of one's own faults."

Proverb, Jewish on pride   

"Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together."

Proverb on pride
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"At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense."

Pope, Alexander on pride   

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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"The nobler the blood the less the pride."

Proverb, Danish on pride   

"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."

Sheen, Fulton John on pride   

"Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there."

Unknown, Source on pride
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"To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak."

Masillon, Jean Baptiste on pride
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