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Quotations by author » Lord Byron
English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824
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The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!
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The devil was the first democrat
Evil
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Compassion
The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
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The English winter - ending in July, / To recommence in August.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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The glory and the nothing of a name
Glory
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the arts of war and peace, / Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! / Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
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The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.
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The loudest wit I e'er was deafened with.
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The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
Love
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
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The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, / I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.
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The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.
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The night shows stars and women in a better light
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