Lord Byron Quotes, Dark Quotes, Egypt Quotes

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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Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

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The devil was the first democrat

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But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

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

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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

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You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

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Let joy be unconfined.

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