Lord Byron Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Ivy Quotes

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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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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In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

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We of the craft are all crazy.

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