Lord Byron Quotes

I learned to love despair.

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Fills The air around with beauty.

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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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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

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In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

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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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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

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