Lord Byron quotes - page 8

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. (Lord Byron)
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. View quote
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. View quote
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. View quote
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. View quote
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A drop of ink may make a million think. View quote
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. View quote
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And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful That God alone was to be seen in heaven. View quote
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A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. View quote
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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. View quote
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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. (Lord Byron)
To have joy, one must share it. View quote
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. View quote
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Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them? View quote
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There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. View quote
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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. View quote
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. View quote
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If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee - With silence and tears. View quote
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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. View quote
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History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page. View quote
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. (Lord Byron)
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. View quote
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. View quote
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them. View quote
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. View quote
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Lord Byron

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: January 22, 1788
Died: April 19, 1824
Quotes count: 405
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