Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRONWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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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 falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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