Lord Byron Quotes
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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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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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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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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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
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I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main – spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
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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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To have joy, one must share it.
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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.