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• I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Effort, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Hate, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 4.

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

  Lord Byron

  Self, Hypocrisy, Form

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• The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

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  Feelings, Mind, Desert

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Spring, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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

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  Sweet, Wine, Ale

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

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• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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  Happiness, Wedding, Men

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• But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

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  Love, Real, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.423, Xist Publishing

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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  Giving, People, Romance

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Third”

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• The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

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  Stars, Space, Sun

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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  Love, Self, Snakes

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• And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

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  Laughter, Laughing, May

  Don Juan canto 4, st. 4 (1821)

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• A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

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  Love, Party, Mean

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

  Lord Byron

  Genius, May, Talent

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

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  Food, People, Hunger

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

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• Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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  Disappointment, Sea, Apples

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 34

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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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  Heart, Power, Common Sense

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• There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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  Doubt, Religion, Literature

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34

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• Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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  Men, Fiction, World

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.303

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• I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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  Climbing, Cities, Feelings

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

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• Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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  Heart, Past, Gone

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

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  Travel, Eye, Grieving

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

  Lord Byron

  Liars, Hate, Writing

  Letter to John Murray from Venice, April 2 1817, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 5 (1976)

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