Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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