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• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Food, Salad

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heart, Break

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

  Lord Byron

  Tears, Literature, Form

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Grieving, Years

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

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• When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Two, Broken

  'When we two parted' (1816)

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• One hates an author that's all author.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Writing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.98, Routledge

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• We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Fear, Fool

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

  Lord Byron

  Food, People, Hunger

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

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• The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

  Lord Byron

  Law, Heaven, Heaven And Earth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• The poetry of speech.

  Lord Byron

  Poetry, Speech

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Trying, Incapable

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.335, Routledge

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• The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

  Lord Byron

  Christian, Gains, Nothing To Lose

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• Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

  Lord Byron

  Genius, May, Talent

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• Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Fall, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.429, Xist Publishing

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• Fame is the thirst of youth.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Youth, Fame

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.63, Routledge

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• Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, Envy, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Revenge

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 124.

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• He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Earth, Judged

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

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• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
  yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

  Lord Byron

  Overcoming, Hateful, Instinct

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• One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

  Lord Byron

  Reading, Knowledge, Needs

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Pain

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• Knowledge is not happiness, and science
  But an exchange of ignorance for that
  Which is another kind of ignorance.

  Lord Byron

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

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• And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Sin, Atonement

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

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• Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wine, Ale

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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