Lord Byron Quotes

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.
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A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!
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There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.
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Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
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In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.
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Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
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Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?
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Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
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Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.
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The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
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Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
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The past is the best prophet of the future.
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The "good old times"-all times when old are good.
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A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
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His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
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The busy have no time for tears.
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In solitude when we are least alone.
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If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
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Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
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Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
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Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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I love not man the less but nature more.
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Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
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Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Lord Byron
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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I love not man the less but nature more.
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Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
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Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.
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A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach with here and there a sail just skipping In sight then lost amidst the forestry Of masts a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge dun cupola like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
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I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
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When we think we lead we most are led.
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A long long kiss a kiss of youth and love.
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Come lay thy head upon my breast And I will kiss thee into rest.
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Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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History is the devil's scripture.
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Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
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Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!
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All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!
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Friendship is love without his wings!
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Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.
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Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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