I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
LORD BYRONThe leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The devil was the first democrat
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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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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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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