Lord Byron Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Ivy Quotes

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

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When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

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Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

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I learned to love despair.

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A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

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Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

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Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

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