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 BYRONThat music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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