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 BYRONThis is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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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.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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