Lord Byron Quotes, Art Quotes, Military Quotes

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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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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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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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

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Critics are already made.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

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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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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

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That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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