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• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

  'Manfred' (1817) act 3, sc. 4, l. 2

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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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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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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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• 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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• But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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  Quiet, Hell, Bosoms

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 42

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• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Art, Moving

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.84

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• The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

  Lord Byron

  Nations

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

  Lord Byron

  Slave, Circumstances, Impulse

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3287, 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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• But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Kids, Holiday

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Men, Land

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, I Had A Dream

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Solitude, Letters

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• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Dying, Going To Sleep

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• Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

  Lord Byron

  Bills, Climax, Humans

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 35

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• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Gold, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Way, Shelley

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Routledge

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Cups

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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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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• In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heaven, Earth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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