Tag: George Gordon Byron

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

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There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.

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Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

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