Lord Byron quotes - page 11

To be thus- Grey-hair'd with anguish, like these blasted pines, Wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless, A blighted trunk upon a cursed root, Which but supplies a feeling to decay- And to be thus, eternally but thus, Having been otherwise! Now furrow'd o'er With wrinkles, plough'd by moments, not by years And hours-all tortured into ages-hours Which I outlive!-Ye toppling crags of ice! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me! I hear ye momently above, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live. (Lord Byron)
Patience! Hence-that word was made For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey; Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,- I am not of thine order. View quote
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Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon. View quote
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His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain: He was a lover of the good old school, Who still become more constant as they cool. View quote
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. View quote
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Oh! if thou hast at length Discover'd that my love is worth esteem, I ask no more-but let us hence together, And I - let me say we - shall yet be happy. Assyria is not all the earth-we'll find A world out of our own - and be more bless'd Than I have ever been, or thou, with all An empire to indulge thee. View quote
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The dust we tread upon was once alive. View quote
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My best! my last friends! Let's not unman each other: part at once: All farewells should be sudden, when for ever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. Hence, and be happy: trust me, I am not Now to be pitied; or far more for what Is past than present; - for the future, 'tis In the hands of the deities, if such There be: I shall know soon. Farewell - Farewell. View quote
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet. View quote
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I am ashes where once I was fire. View quote
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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold! (Lord Byron)
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. View quote
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. View quote
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. View quote
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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? View quote
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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. View quote
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. View quote
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? View quote
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absolutely too - high and will go down. (Lord Byron)
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. View quote
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. View quote
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. View quote
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? View quote
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