Lord Byron Quotes

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

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Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

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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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