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• And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Cups, Sparkle

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

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• Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

  Lord Byron

  Dwelling Place, Desert, Spirit

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 177

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• The poetry of speech.

  Lord Byron

  Poetry, Speech

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Literature

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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• We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Fear, Fool

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Epic

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• Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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  Power, Years, Shade

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

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• If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

  Lord Byron

  Loneliness, Solitude, Should

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

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  Mourning, Witness, Mourn

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• One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

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  Spiritual, Soul And Body, Imagine

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• To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Literature, Sincere

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• In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Grieving, Years

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Pain

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Littles, Impossible

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• Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Liberty, Spirit

  'Sonnet on Chillon' (1816)

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• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Meaningful, Angel

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

  Lord Byron

  Land, Bridges, Wings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.264, Delphi Classics

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• I learned to love despair.

  Lord Byron

  Despair

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.979, Delphi Classics

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• 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Thank You, Valentines Day

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.168, Routledge

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• Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Grief, Sorrow

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

  Lord Byron

  Reading, Knowledge, Needs

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• I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
  yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

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  Overcoming, Hateful, Instinct

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• When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Two, Broken

  'When we two parted' (1816)

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• Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

  Lord Byron

  Love, One Love, Sigh

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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