Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
LORD BYRONA thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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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!
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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