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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

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  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

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  Country, Laughing, Spain

  "Don Juan".

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• Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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  Years, Evil, Lines

  "Learn to love the critics. Even the stinkers" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

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  Retirement, Mind, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics

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• Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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  Wine, Cups

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

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  Hope, Heaven, Earth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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  Sleep, Dying, Going To Sleep

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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.

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  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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  Slave, Circumstances, Impulse

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3287, Delphi Classics

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• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

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  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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  Literature, Way, Shelley

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Routledge

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

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  Track, Guilt, Forfeit

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

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  Dream, I Had A Dream

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

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  Bills, Climax, Humans

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 35

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

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  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

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  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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  Fall, Men, Land

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• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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  Heart, Gold, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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  Quiet, Hell, Bosoms

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 42

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• The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

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  Nations

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

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  Soul, Sculpture, Form

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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  Men, Hands, Pockets

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.234

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• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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  Life, Vices, Literature

  "Lord Byron", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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  Writing, Solitude, Letters

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