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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Grief, Flower

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Farewell, Vain

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

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• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

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• The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Stupidity, Literature

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• The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

  Lord Byron

  Family, Children, Home

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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Fortune, All Things

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• Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Thinking, Calendars

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

  Lord Byron

  Loneliness, Solitude, Feelings

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Apples

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

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• So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.533, Delphi Classics

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• My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Boat

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Spirit, Worship

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1164, Delphi Classics

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• And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

  Lord Byron

  Should Have, Fishing, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

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• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Tears, Weakness

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

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• So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Wish, Pity

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

  Lord Byron

  Spain, Chivalry, Ridicule

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

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• Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Night, Wind

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.23

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• A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Men, Essence

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• The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

  Lord Byron

  Different, Hay, Bulls

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.558, Delphi Classics

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• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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• There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

  Lord Byron

  Tears, Graves, Dies

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• For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

  Lord Byron

  War, Beer, Animal

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

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• I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Hatred, Religion

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2722, Delphi Classics

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• There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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