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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.


Lord Byron

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
WALT DISNEY There is no gem like truth, no wealth like knowledge, no treasure like understanding, and no jewel l...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The talking about own material pleasure or preaching others for enjoying their monetary treasure is ...
ANUJ SOMANY Pleasure vociferates more than Wisdom.
JOHN STACK IV Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER There is no friend, other than the Name of the Lord, the Lord s humble servants reflect upon this an...
GURU GOBIND SINGH And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of...
BIBLE When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not...
JEREMY CLARKSON There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
ED ROLLINS May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
ISABEL YOSITO There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none...
PIETRO ARETINO There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people ...
MAURICE FLANAGAN Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that know...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parod...
ADAM MCKAY I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is...
FULTON J. SHEEN It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolute...
MARGUERITE DURAS I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
DANIELLE STEEL There is no difference amongst intelligence, common sense and wisdom, but for own comfort and conven...
ANUJ SOMANY May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'
THOMAS S. MONSON Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and ma...
ALAN MOORE There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
WALT DISNEY There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees...
JOHN KEATS There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
SOPHIA LOREN I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doc...
ABHIJIT NASKAR There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry E...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Even though thousands of live rivers pour their waters into the seas; the level is not seen to incre...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work hard...
DEREK JETER You Yourself are Yourself the Formless Lord, there is no other than You.
GURU GOBIND SINGH Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, w...
LORD BYRON Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do lo...
RICHARD BAXTER Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you ...
STEPHEN KING All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...
SOPHOCLES My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) No light is brighter than wisdom, wisdom is the light in the world.
BUDDHA Than all the sages can.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE Sages discovered this link of the existent to the nonexistent, having searched in the heart with wis...
RIG VEDA There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, the...
MARQUIS DE SADE I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover w...
KAREN MAITLAND I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. Ther...
GINNIFER GOODWIN Purchase the jewel, the priceless treasure, the True Guru has given this understanding. The profit o...
GURU NANAK The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is ...
TIM JACKSON There are two types of sages: sages who tell us what we should do and sages who tell us what we shou...
ERALDO BANOVAC I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-...
P. J. O'ROURKE Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobb...
ANDY SERKIS There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
JOSH BILLINGS Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuou...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHT The hymen of a lady signifies that,there is a world of pleasure in there,however no pain,no pleasure...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for...
LAURA BUSH One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The is no treasure which can worth more than inner peace on this world
LEBOGANG MARUMO Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There&...
NAVAL RAVIKANT On the background of every struggle, the is a treasure filled with experience and wisdom.
LEBOGANG MARUMO There is no wisdom like frankness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no wisdom without love.
N. SRI RAM There is no wisdom like frankness
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living tha...
RICHARD AVEDON If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no...
JOHN AUBREY There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footstep...
ELIZA COOK For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one...
LORD BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
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NANCY GIBBS The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, a...
KAREN MAITLAND It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C. S. LEWIS Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C.S. LEWIS There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man...
CHARLES MORGAN Let everyone hail and praise the True Guru, who has led us to find the treasure of the Lord s devoti...
GURU GOBIND SINGH I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot...
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