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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

  Lord Byron

  Morning, Fame, Found

  Quoted in Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830). Byron wrote this in his Memoranda after the first two cantos of his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published in 1812 and became sensationally popular.

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• Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

  Lord Byron

  Past, One Day, Humans

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1375, Delphi Classics

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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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• Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

  Lord Byron

  Blushing, Wells, Pure

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

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Night, Light

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.66

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• For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Hands, Gentleman

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.136

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• Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Goodbye, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

  Lord Byron

  Love, World

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

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• As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Blue, Wind

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

  Lord Byron

  Mutual, Detest

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• Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Men, Race

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

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• I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Money

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• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Kissing, Yellow

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

  Lord Byron

  Perseverance, Commitment, Self

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• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Vices, Noble

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Passion, Earthquakes

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

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• Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

  Lord Byron

  Party, Drunk, Firsts

  "'Tis a strange serpent - 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature" by Mark Forsyth, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2017.

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• If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Imagination, Optical Illusions

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• A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

  Lord Byron

  Whispering, Littles, Consent

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 117 (written 1818)

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• Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

  Lord Byron

  Book, Regulation, Fit

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• No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Soul, Secret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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