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 BYRONBe warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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