Lord Byron Quotes, Track Quotes, Guilt Quotes

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

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A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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Life is too short for chess.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

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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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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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