Lord Byron Quotes, Time Quotes, Age Quotes

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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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

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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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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

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

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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

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I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

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