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Religion
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Remembrance
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The good old times -- all times when old are good.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Revolution
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The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sadness
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The busy have no time for tears.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Science
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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Seduction
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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Self-love
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Selfishness
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sex
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Shame
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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Shopping
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sincerity
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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sleep
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Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Smile
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Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Snow
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And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Hebrew Melodies, `The Destruction of Sennacherib'
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Society
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Solitude
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818
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Success & Failure
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They never fail who die in a great cause.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Suicide
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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Thought
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Time
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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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