Lord Byron Quotes, Horse Quotes, Pain Quotes

With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

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In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

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The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

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