Lord Byron Quotes, Slave Quotes, Circumstances Quotes

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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

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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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

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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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