Lord Byron Quotes, Advice Quotes

Good but rarely came from good advice.

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Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

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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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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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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It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

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Damn description, it is always disgusting.

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

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Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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