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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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  Wine, Sight, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• That low vice, curiosity!

  Lord Byron

  Curiosity, Vices, Lows

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.139, Routledge

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• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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  Art, Military, Army

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• I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

  Lord Byron

  Echoes, World, Knees

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

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• Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

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  Pain, Painful, Payment

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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  Country, Selfish, World

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.41, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

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  Hate, Passion, Heart

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1469, Delphi Classics

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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  Hands, Bridges, Venice

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 1 (1818)

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• Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, People, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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  Salt, Refinement, Expenses

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• When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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  Fall, Rome, World

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

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  Night, Slumber, Prom

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

  Lord Byron

  Money, Lamps, Aladdin's Lamp

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics

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• Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Old Man, Difficult

  'Manfred' (2nd ed., 1819) act 3, sc. 4, l. 151

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• And hold up to the sun my little taper.

  Lord Byron

  Littles, Sun, Authorship

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2208, Delphi Classics

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• I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Sex

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• We of the craft are all crazy.

  Lord Byron

  Crazy, Bipolar, Crafts

  " New study claims to find genetic link between creativity and mental illness" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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  Wine, Flavor, Vinegar

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
  The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
  And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
  Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

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  Moon, Clouds, Air

  George Gordon Byron, “Darkness”

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• Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

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  Dolphins, Gone, Lasts

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

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  Country, Rome, Cities

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 78

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• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

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  Hate, Heart, Fate

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

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• It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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  Voice, Giving, Mind

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Sound, Language

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.350, Routledge

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• Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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  Track, Steps, Glory

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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