Lord Byron Quotes

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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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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With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

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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 am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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Eternity forbids thee to forget.

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

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Eternity forbids thee to forget.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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

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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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

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Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

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