Lord Byron Quotes, Dark Quotes, Fire Quotes

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

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Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

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

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

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Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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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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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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