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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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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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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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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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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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

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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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Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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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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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

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