The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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Think not I am what I appear.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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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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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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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 heart will break, but broken live on.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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The devil was the first democrat
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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