Lord Byron Quotes, Men Quotes, Land Quotes

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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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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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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

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A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

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History - the devil's scripture

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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Armenian is the language to speak with God.

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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

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My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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