Lord Byron Quotes - Page 19

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

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  Science, Soul, Age

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• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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  Country, Hunting, Literature

  'The Age of Bronze' (1823) st. 14

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• Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

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  Pain, Fate, Men

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• With flowing tail and flying mane,
  Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
  Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
  And feet that iron never shod,
  And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
  A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
  Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
  Came thickly thundering on.

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  Horse, Pain, Sea

  Lord Byron, “Mazeppa”

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• I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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  Death, Dust, Hair

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• The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

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  Spring, Responsibility, Should Have

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• That low vice, curiosity!

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  Curiosity, Vices, Lows

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.139, Routledge

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• 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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  Book, Names, Literature

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

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• Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

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  Grieving, Bravery, Brave

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

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  Passion, Please Me, Goes On

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• Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

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  Love, Turtles, Land

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

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  Medicine, Physicians, Ends

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

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  Moon, Air, Sea

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• A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

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  Dirty, Moral, Reason

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

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  Passion, Crowns, Pique

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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  Reading, Book, Book Reading

  Letter to Richard Hoppner, October 29 1819, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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• The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

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  Sports, Player, Games

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• What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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  God, Men, Climate

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 63 (written 1818)

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• I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

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  Shoes, Charity, Misery

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• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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  Art, Military, Army

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• Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

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  Pain, Painful, Payment

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.243, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

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  Money, Gold, Credit

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• The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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  Wine, Sight, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

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  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

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  Good Night, Country, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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