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 BYRONSelf praise is no praise at all.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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