Lord Byron Quotes

I learned to love despair.

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

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Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

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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 awoke one day to find myself famous.

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This is the age of oddities let loose.

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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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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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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