Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRONWhat an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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I learned to love despair.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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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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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.
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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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