Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Where is honour, Innate and precept-strengthen'd, 'tis the rock Of faith connubial: where it is not - where Light thoughts are lurking, or the vanities Of worldly pleasure rankle in the heart, Or sensual throbs convulse it, well I know 'Twere hopeless for humanity to dream Of honesty in such infected blood, Although 'twere wed to him it covets most; An incarnation of the poet's god In all his marble-chiselled beauty, or The demi-deity, Alcides, in His majesty of superhuman manhood, Would not suffice to bind where virtue is not; It is consistency which forms and proves it; Vice cannot fix and virtue cannot change, The once fall'n woman must forever fall; For vice must have variety, while virtue Stands like the sun and all which rolls around Drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect. Lord Byron: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, Act II, sc. I, lines 378-398"@en }
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- Fallen_woman quote "Where is honour, Innate and precept-strengthen'd, 'tis the rock Of faith connubial: where it is not - where Light thoughts are lurking, or the vanities Of worldly pleasure rankle in the heart, Or sensual throbs convulse it, well I know 'Twere hopeless for humanity to dream Of honesty in such infected blood, Although 'twere wed to him it covets most; An incarnation of the poet's god In all his marble-chiselled beauty, or The demi-deity, Alcides, in His majesty of superhuman manhood, Would not suffice to bind where virtue is not; It is consistency which forms and proves it; Vice cannot fix and virtue cannot change, The once fall'n woman must forever fall; For vice must have variety, while virtue Stands like the sun and all which rolls around Drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect. Lord Byron: Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, Act II, sc. I, lines 378-398".