Lord Byron Quotes
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.
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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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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
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Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
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They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first – they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all – The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.
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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!