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• Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Angel

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

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• A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

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  Love, Party, Mean

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Heart, Fate

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

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• Happiness was born a twin.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Twins

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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  Love, Self, Snakes

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• Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

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  Love, Goodbye, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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  Nature, Men, Earth Day

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

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• If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

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  Men, Ancient, Holy

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Blue, Wind

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Heartless, Headless

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

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  War, Men, Essence

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• Critics are already made.

  Lord Byron

  Criticism, Made, Critics

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• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  Lord Byron

  Mean, Love Is, People

  "Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

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  Fall, Ambition, Blood

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Ninth”

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• War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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  War, Knives, Cry

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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  Math, Two, Giving

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• History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

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• Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

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  Party, Drunk, Firsts

  "'Tis a strange serpent - 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature" by Mark Forsyth, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2017.

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• Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

  Lord Byron

  Sky, Mountain, Wave

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Small Changes, People

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• No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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  Truth, Soul, Secret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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  Book, Regulation, Fit

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• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Passion, Earthquakes

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• My native land, good night!

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  Good Night, Land, Native

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.18

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