There is no instinct like that of the heart.
LORD BYRONLet us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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