Lord Byron Quotes
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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With just enough of learning to misquote.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
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Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
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Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.
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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.