Lord Byron Quotes, Past Quotes

The best prophet of the future is the past.

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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

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I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

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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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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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I see before me the gladiator lie.

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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Eternity forbids thee to forget.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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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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