Lord Byron Quotes
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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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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
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Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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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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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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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
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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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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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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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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sunThe many still must labour for the one!
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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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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.