Quote by Lord Byron
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, m

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

Other quotes by Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. – Lord Byron

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron

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Other Quotes from
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There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time thats not so bad but New York City? – Henny Youngman

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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. – Margaret Fuller

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I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we dont even know are available to us. – Michael J. Fox

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