Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
LORD BYRONTis 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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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