Lord Byron Quotes, Self Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

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Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

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Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

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Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

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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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I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

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To have joy, one must share it.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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