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.
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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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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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