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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.

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  Wise, Art, Moving

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

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• But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

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  Daughter, Flower, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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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.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

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

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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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  Death, Desire, Certain

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Routledge

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

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  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

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  Nations

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

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• He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

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  Art, Riding, Fencing

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

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

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  Slave, Circumstances, Impulse

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3287, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Food, Kids, Holiday

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

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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.

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  Nature, Flower, Health

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

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  Real, Greek, Doubt

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

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  Writing, Solitude, Letters

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

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  Track, Guilt, Forfeit

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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

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  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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

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  Dream, I Had A Dream

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

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

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  Literature, Way, Shelley

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

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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.

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  Fall, Men, Land

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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  Wine, Cups

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

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• Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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  Sleep, Dying, Going To Sleep

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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.

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  Science, Discovery, Opposites

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

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

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  Hope, Heaven, Earth

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

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• Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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  Men, Hands, Pockets

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.234

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