Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The devil was the first democrat
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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