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Cynicism
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Death
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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, The
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Deception/Lying
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And after all, what is a lie?
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 37
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Dissent
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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Doubt
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Education
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Empire
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Endurance
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Envy / Jealousy
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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Epitaphs
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Excuses
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Faith
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Fame
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Fantasy
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Fate & Destiny
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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