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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

By Lord Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

By Lord Byron

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

By Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

By Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

By Lord Byron

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.

By Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

By Lord Byron

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

By Lord Byron

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

By Lord Byron

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

By Lord Byron

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

By Lord Byron

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

By Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

By Lord Byron

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.

By Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

By Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

By Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

By Lord Byron

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

By Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

By Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

By Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

By Lord Byron

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

By Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

By Lord Byron

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

By Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

By Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

By Lord Byron

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

By Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.

By Lord Byron

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

By Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

By Lord Byron