Lord Byron Quotes
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To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.
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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.
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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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They never fail who dieIn a great cause.
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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good -Are gone.
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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
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Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.
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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.
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.