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 BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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The devil was the first democrat
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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