Lord Byron Quotes - Page 22

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• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Roving, Absence

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Teaching, Mind

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• By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

  Lord Byron

  Brother, Sight, Heaven

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Wife, Laura

  Don Juan canto 3, st. 8 (1821)

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• May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

  Lord Byron

  Grateful, Skills, Coats

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.606, Delphi Classics

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• The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Losing, Cold

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Venice once was dear,
  The pleasant place of all festivity,
  The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

  Lord Byron

  Venice, Earth, Masque

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
  And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2

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• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
  On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
  But on thy turf shall roses rear
  Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

  Lord Byron

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

  Lord Byron

  Feet, Ballet, Legs

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• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Father, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Dangerous

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Light, Years

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• Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Other Worlds, Solitude, Sorrow

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• Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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  Passion, Years, Leader

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• Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
  Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
  For into a prime minister but change
  His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

  Lord Byron

  Titles, Flags, Taxation

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.80

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• In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Ideas

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• 'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

  Lord Byron

  Philosophy, Thinking, Sky

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 93

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• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

  Lord Byron

  War, Reading, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2656, Delphi Classics

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• Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Years, Wings

  George Gordon Byron, “When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay”

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Laughing, Spain

  "Don Juan".

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• The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

  Lord Byron

  School, Son, Boys

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• Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Water, Mixtures

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Routledge

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