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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.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Passion, Long

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

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• Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

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  Hypocrisy, Hell, Hypocritical

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2201, Delphi Classics

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• Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

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  Heart

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.827, Delphi Classics

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• Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

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  Dream, Men, Race

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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  Dance, Aquarius, Feet

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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  Ends, Difficult

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.99

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• Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

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  Beautiful, Stars, Sky

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.76

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• I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

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  Atheism, Methodists, Positive Atheism

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• So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

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  Regret, Eye, Kissing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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  Life, Fire, Years

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 8

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

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  Mortality, Mortals

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

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  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friends, Jealousy

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• Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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  Wine, May, Soda

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

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  Army, Men, People

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3042, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

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  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Climbing, Cities, Feelings

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

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• Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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  Stars, Inspiration, Heaven

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.56, Routledge

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

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  Sad, Sea, Lovers

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.155

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• The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

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  Stars, Space, Sun

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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  Morning, Fame, Found

  Quoted in Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). Byron wrote this in his Memoranda after the first two cantos of his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published in 1812 and became sensationally popular.

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

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  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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  Love, Hate, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 4.

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• I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

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  Love, Funny, Money

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• But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

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  Stories, Conversation

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.352, Routledge

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