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What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.
Thought
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Childe Harold--To Inez (canto I, st. 84, l. 6)
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Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,
I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,
Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn
Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;
But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one
Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."
Poets
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 42)
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But every fool describes, in these bright days,
His wondrous journey to some foreign court,
And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--
Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
Authorship
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 52)
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Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength,
And ponder well your subject, and its length;
Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware
What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.
Authorship
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Hints from Horace (l. 59)
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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,
And roam along, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
Solitude
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 26)
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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter."
And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
Argument
Quotes, by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) , Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 1), an allusion to a dissertation by Berkeley on Mind and Matter found in no
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