Lord Byron Quotes, Army Quotes, Men Quotes

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

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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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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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