Lord Byron Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Genius 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.

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A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

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Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

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

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I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

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The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

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On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

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Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

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