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.
LORD BYRONI awoke one day to find myself famous.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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Think not I am what I appear.
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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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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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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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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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