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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
Lord Byron -
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
Lord Byron
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron -
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
Lord Byron -
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron -
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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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.
Lord Byron
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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
Lord Byron -
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
Lord Byron -
My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Lord Byron -
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
Lord Byron -
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
Lord Byron -
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron -
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron -
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron -
What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
Lord Byron -
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Lord Byron
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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.
Lord Byron -
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
Lord Byron -
Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Lord Byron -
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron