Lord Byron Quotes
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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That low vice, curiosity!
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Good but rarely came from good advice.
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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caressMore dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beauties-give me a cigar!
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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.
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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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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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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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.
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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.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.