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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.
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron -
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
Lord Byron -
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron -
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Lord Byron -
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
Lord Byron
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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron -
In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
Lord Byron -
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron -
The best prophet of the future is the past.
Lord Byron -
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord Byron
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord Byron -
Let joy be unconfined.
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron -
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron -
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.
Lord Byron -
The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
Lord Byron
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
Lord Byron -
Good but rarely came from good advice.
Lord Byron -
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron