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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.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Lord Byron
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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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.
Lord Byron
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The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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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!
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
Lord Byron
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
Lord Byron