George Gordon Byron

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"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?"	Death, Duty, Honesty
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"	Art, Life
"I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!"	Fear, Honesty, Life
"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."	Ambition, Art, Darkness
"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure."	Love, Men
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Love, Men, Music
"There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."	Doubt
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."	Miscellaneous
"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable."	Ability, Age, Death
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"	Patriotism
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."	Death, Life, Men
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."	Destruction, Humor, Laughter
"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."	Monarchy
"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."	Time
"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"	Miscellaneous
"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."	Ability, Life, War
"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."	Change, Time

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Ability	Age	Ambition
Art	Change	Darkness
Death	Desires	Destruction
Doubt	Duty	Fear
Honesty	Humor	Laughter
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Music	Nature
Patriotism	Responsibility	Sin
Sleeping	Time	Truth
Wants	War