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• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

  Lord Byron

  Departed, Fallen, Immortal

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73

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• It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Destiny, Interesting

  From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

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• I see before me the gladiator lie.

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  Lying, Agony

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

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• Fills The air around with beauty.

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  Beauty, Air

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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  Literature, Merit, Findings

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• My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

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  Ocean, Mountain, Altars

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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  Literature, Nostalgia, Old Time

  "The Age of Bronze" st. 1 (1823)

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

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  Literature, Earth, Judged

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

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• Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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  Men, Oracles, Conscience

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Pay, England

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• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Fall, Heart

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• I loved my country, and I hated him.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Hated

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.282, Routledge

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• Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

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  Happiness, Boys, Years

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

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  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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  Hands, Bridges, Venice

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 1 (1818)

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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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• A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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  Salt, Refinement, Expenses

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• Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

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  Passion, People, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.20, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

  Lord Byron

  Scandal, Form, Dissection

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.8

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• When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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  Fall, Rome, World

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145

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• I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

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  Pain, Forever, Tears

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• Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

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  Love Is, Heaven, Grove

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2206, Delphi Classics

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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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• Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

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  Night, Slumber, Prom

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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