Lord Byron Quotes, Truth Quotes, War Quotes

...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

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The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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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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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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