Lord Byron Quotes
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That which I am, I am; I did not seekFor life, nor did I make myself.
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Who track the steps of glory to the grave.
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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
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Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!
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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.
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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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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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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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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
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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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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
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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.