Lord Byron Quotes

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

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The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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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 waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

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