Lord Byron Quotes, Dirty Quotes, Moral Quotes

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

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Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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

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There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

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Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

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And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

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The devil was the first democrat

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

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Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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