Lord Byron Quotes, Country Quotes, Destiny Quotes

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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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 cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

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