What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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