Lord Byron Quotes

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

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  Stars, Heart, Fate

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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  Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

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• I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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  Men, Trying, Incapable

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.335, Routledge

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• You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

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  Heart, Keys

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• I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

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  Long, Evil, Strange

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• Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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  Inspirational, Doubt, Atheism

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• The devil was the first democrat

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  Evil, Devil, Firsts

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• A drop of ink may make a million think.

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  Thinking, May, Politician

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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.

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  Happiness, Wedding, Men

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

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  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Smooth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

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  Love, Sex, Water

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• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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  Love, Eye, Dark

  "SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

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  Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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  Love, Smile, Romantic

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

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  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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  Men, Thinking, Dust

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• I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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  Literature, Found, Duty

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• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

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  Stars, Atoms, Useless

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• The best prophet of the future is the past.

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  Past, Prophet

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  Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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  Love, Friendship, Doe

  "Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington". Book by Marguerite Countess of Blessington, 1834.

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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  Love, Life, Dying

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• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

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  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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  Love, Broken Heart, Happy Valentines Day

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