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 BYRONEternity forbids thee to forget.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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