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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Lord Byron

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRON

Came Dead Infinity Inquire Know Living Midst Myriad Shall Star System Useless World
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
LORD BYRON

Brain Few Thing May Preach More Pleas Surpass Wine
The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
LORD BYRON

Conclusive Discussion Every Himself Intervene Manner Sense Tiger Will
And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
LORD BYRON

Before Hear Music Once Perish Speak Voice
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
LORD BYRON

Treasure Tyranny Worst
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Been Known Lord Mercantile Politician Wait Written
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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Agreeable Existing Feeling Government Most Politics Setestation Shortest Simplest Summary Utter
Come what may, I have been blest.
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Been Blest Come May
I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
LORD BYRON

All Death Die Hateful Innate Instinct Invisible Life Live Living Loathsome Make Nanjing Singing Sve
Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
LORD BYRON

Declare Discovery Explore Fell Grand Great Himself Invention Mind Ocean Only Proverb Scientist Shell Truth Youth
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
LORD BYRON

Deepest Know Knowledge Life Mourn Must Sorrow Tree
A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Drop Ink May Million Think
Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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Drink Eat Love Nickel Rest Worth
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 BYRON

Crave Drive Even Exist Feel Game Great Life Object Pain Sensation Though Void
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
LORD BYRON

Advantage Give Later Lover Man May Expect Sooner Tyrant Woman
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.
LORD BYRON

Any Believe Immortality Nothing Religion

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