When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'... by Lord Byron

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

impossible littles thinking

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts whic... by Lord Byron

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

shrouds dissent ideas

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

pain writing love

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

dance success life

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

light eye heart

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. by Lord Byron

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

wise happiness funny

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly b... by Lord Byron

Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

birth beautiful ideas

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that... by Lord Byron

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

reading knowledge needs

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

stars disappointment discovery

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and tru... by Lord Byron

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

literature doubt religion

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

love-is mean people

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. by Lord Byron

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

lyric-poetry lonely wind

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn,... by Lord Byron

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

stars night life

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrasse... by Lord Byron

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

embarrassment ears people

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruff... by Lord Byron

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

kissing blue wind

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

desert mind feelings

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

party love mean

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

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