Lord Byron Quotes, Long Quotes, Doubt Quotes

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

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Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then back again to Chaos, The Superstratum which will overlay us.

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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 loved my country, and I hated him.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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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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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

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There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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