Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONWhere there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRONThe heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD BYRONBut words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
LORD BYRONThe best prophet of the future is the past.
LORD BYRONThough I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
LORD BYRONThis is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
LORD BYRONSocrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
LORD BYRONA drop of ink may make a million think.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
LORD BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
LORD BYRONWhat’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
LORD BYRONI slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONI have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
LORD BYRONMen think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
LORD BYRONAll who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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