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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

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• Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

  Lord Byron

  Beauty

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 42

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• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

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• Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Years, Exhausting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
  When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;...
  Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
  Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Giving, Smoking, Naked

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• Land of lost gods and godlike men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Land, Losing

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Alone Man, Vanity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

  Lord Byron

  Home, Two, People

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• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

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

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• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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  People, Giving, Mind

  'The Dream' (1816) st. 1

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Sarcasm, Fool

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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• Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Ideas, Birth

  "Childe Harold's pilgrimage".

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• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.

  Lord Byron

  Said, Living On, Persons

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.52

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• Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Laughing, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.420, Xist Publishing

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• There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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  Eye, Heart, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.347, Routledge

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• They never fail who die in a great cause.

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  Death, Failure, Sacrifice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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  Writing, Ears, Way

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• A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

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  Revenge, Punishment, Atheism

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

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• All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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  Sleep, Silence, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.76, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

  Lord Byron

  Demon, Blight, Exile

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

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• Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.502, Xist Publishing

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