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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron
Fame
Folly
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron
Fools
Satire
Song
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron
Life
Thought
Years
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron
Grief
Nothing
Past
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
Truth
Fiction
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Friendship
Love
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
Friendship
Love
May
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron
Men
Wrongs
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
Hate
Mankind
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron
Appetite
Being
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
Happiness
Man
Misery
Pursuit
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron
Acting
Sensuality
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron
Hell
Help
Humanity
Thinking
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron
Christianity
May
Mind
Pleasure
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron
Fortune
Nothing