George Gordon Byron

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    “They turn’d to rest; and, each clasp’d by an arm,
    Yielded to the deep twilight’s purple charm.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “For in itself a thought,
    A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
    And curdles a long life into one hour.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen,
    That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed
    As obstinacy, both in men and women,
    Whene’er their triumph pales, or star is tamed —
    And ‘twill perplex the casuist in morality
    To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)