Lord Byron Quotes - Page 5

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• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Military, Tyranny, Worst

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• Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Happiness, Wise

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2328, Delphi Classics

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• It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking

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• Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Friendship, Heart

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friendship, Agreement

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• Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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  Atheism, Favors, Positive Atheism

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

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• So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

  Lord Byron

  Adolescence

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.88, Routledge

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  Good but rarely came from good advice.

  Lord Byron

  Advice, Good Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.298

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• Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

  Lord Byron

  Law, Cities

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• A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

  Lord Byron

  Wonder, Hours, Tales

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Art, Animal

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• On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

  Lord Byron

  Light, Ears, Oar

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Socrates said, our only knowledge was
  "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant
  Science enough, which levels to an ass
  Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
  Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas!
  Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
  That he himself felt only "like a youth
  Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Past, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics

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• We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, Inspiration, Believe

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

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• What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Strange, Stranger

  "Don Juan".

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• Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Gone, Athens

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

  Lord Byron

  Sea, Tears, Dignity

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

  Lord Byron

  Law, Heaven, Heaven And Earth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Moral, Sometimes, Sin

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 133

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• Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heart, Break

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Ink, Millions

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Years, Scare

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• In solitude, where we are least alone.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Wise, Wisdom

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

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