Lord Byron Quotes, Dream Quotes, Mistake Quotes

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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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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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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In solitude, where we are least alone.

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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

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

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Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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