Lord Byron Quotes, Fall Quotes, Men Quotes

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

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A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

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Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

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The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

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In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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