Lord Byron, a brilliant poet, spent his life in a mad search for pleasure. Moderns would say, “He tried to live it up.” Then in despair he wrote:
The thorns I have reaped are of the tree I planted.
They have torn me and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring
from such a tree.
Baker Books, 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green