There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.


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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of th...
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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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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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very wil...
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, ...
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
History is the devil's scripture.
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And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which d...
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
Wh...
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All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated wi...
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t...
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I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervant...
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close ...
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Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,
A million scarce would quench desire;
Still would I stee...
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days --...
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What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's la...
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind...
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,...
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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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 spit...
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ...
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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
That low vice, curiosity!
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Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
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What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thou...
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, ...
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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of b...
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and...
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