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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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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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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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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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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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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