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• Damn description, it is always disgusting.

  Lord Byron

  Statistics, Description, Damn

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2596, Delphi Classics

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• Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

  Lord Byron

  Age, Towers, Marathon

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.52, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

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  Song, Singing, Sound

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

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  Speech, Plant, Traitor

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• Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

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  Love, One Love, Sigh

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Despair and Genius are too oft connected

  Lord Byron

  Despair, Genius, Connected

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!

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  Humility, Eye, Voice

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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  Ocean, Sea, Boat

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

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  Gambling, People, Excited

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.37, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

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  Memories, Past, Thinking

  George Gordon Byron, “Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness”

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Sex, Water

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• He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

  Lord Byron

  Military, Solitude, Carnage

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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  Anchors, Eternity, Bark

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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  Wise, Grief, Sorrow

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The French courage proceeds from vanity

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  Vanity, Bravery

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• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

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  Spring, Home, Heart

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• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

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  Nature, Farewell, Woods

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

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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  Sensual, Acting, Actors

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• For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

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  Kissing, Hands, Gentleman

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.136

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• I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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  Men, Religion, Speak

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

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  Hate, Misanthrope, Call Me

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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  Jealousy, World, Shows

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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  Jealousy, Hate, Ambition

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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  People, Ears, Embarrassment

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• As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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  Nature, Passion, Long

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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