There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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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I am not now That which I have been.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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