We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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The devil was the first democrat
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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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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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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