Lord Byron Quotes - Page 6

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• In solitude, where we are least alone.

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  Marriage, Wise, Wisdom

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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  Sausage, Bologna, Pope

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• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

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  Spiritual, Soul And Body, Imagine

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• I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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  Blessed, May, Firsts

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.776, Delphi Classics

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• For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

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  Stars, Night, Light

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.66

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• Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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  Atheism, Favors, Positive Atheism

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

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• You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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  Love, Heart, Should Have

  To his wife, who had rested her head on his breast, in E. C. Mayne (ed.) 'The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron' (1929) ch. 11

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• Socrates said, our only knowledge was
  "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant
  Science enough, which levels to an ass
  Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
  Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas!
  Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
  That he himself felt only "like a youth
  Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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  Ocean, Past, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics

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• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

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  Dwelling Place, Desert, Spirit

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 177

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• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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  Self, Envy, Doubt

  "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208, 1830.

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• Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

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  White, Pearls, Champagne

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• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  Lord Byron

  Idols, People, Literature

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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  Military, Tyranny, Worst

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• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

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  Scandal, Form, Dissection

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

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• Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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  Dream, Gone, Athens

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

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  Moon, Sky, Rivers

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• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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  Life, Stars, Night

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

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• Absence - that common cure of love.

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  Love, Funny, Epic

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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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  Mind, Clay, Delicacy

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• Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

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  Law, Cities

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• Frienship is eros...without wings

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  Friendship, Wings, Eros

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• He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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  Men, Virtue, Crime

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