Lord Byron Quotes, Eye Quotes, Dear Ones Quotes

O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

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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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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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Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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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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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

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[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then back again to Chaos, The Superstratum which will overlay us.

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My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

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Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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There is no instinct like that of the heart.

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