What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
LORD BYRONWhat 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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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 deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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