Lord Byron Quotes, Years Quotes, Evil Quotes

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.

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I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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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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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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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.

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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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