Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
LORD BYRONThe 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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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The devil was the first democrat
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I learned to love despair.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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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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What 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!
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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