Lord Byron Quotes, War Quotes, Reading Quotes

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

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Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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

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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

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