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"What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper."
Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 218.
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"At leaving even the most unpleasant people And places, one keeps looking at the steeple."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 14.
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"There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 34.
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"A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 53.
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"All who joy would win Must share it, happiness was born a twin."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 172.
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 178.
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"A long, long kiss,--a kiss of youth and love."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 186.
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"Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing."
Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 199.
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"In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 3.
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"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 41.
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"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. . . . . . Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 1.
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"The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 3.
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"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylæ."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 7.
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"You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,-- Think ye he meant them for a slave?"
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 10.
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"Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 16.
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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 88.
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"Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns."
Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 108.
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"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 4.
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"The precious porcelain of human clay."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11.
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""Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12.
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"Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12.
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"And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29.
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"These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93.
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""Arcades ambo,"--id est, blackguards both."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93.
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"I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 101.
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"Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky."
Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 110.
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"There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine."
Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 5.
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"But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices."
Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 27.
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"And puts himself upon his good behaviour."
Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 47.
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"That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell."
Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 49.
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"The women pardon'd all except her face."
Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 113.
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"Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius."
Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 7.
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"A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays."
Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 78.
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"The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore."
Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 3.
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"Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose."
Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 18.
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"What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!"
Don Juan. Canto ix. Stanza 64.
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"And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter."
Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 24.
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"Oh for a forty-parson power!"
Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 34.
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"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said."
Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 1.
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"And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade."
Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 37.
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"'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article."
Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 59.
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"Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile."
Don Juan. Canto xiii. stanza 9.
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"Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away."
Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 11.
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"Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."
Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 95.
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"All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."
Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 99.
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"'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction."
Don Juan. Canto xiv. Stanza 101.
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"The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice."
Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 13.
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"A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."
Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 43.
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"Friendship is Love without his wings."
L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes.
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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
Memoranda from his Life, by Moore, Chap. xiv.
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