Lord Byron quotes - page 3

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. (Lord Byron)
The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull. View quote
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The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest. View quote
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole - And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul! View quote
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. View quote
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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! View quote
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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! View quote
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. View quote
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. View quote
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world. View quote
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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. (Lord Byron)
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. View quote
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Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find. View quote
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There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. View quote
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Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. View quote
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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel. View quote
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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another. View quote
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. View quote
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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. View quote
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Fame is the thirst of youth. View quote
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we arealone. (Lord Byron)
In solitude, where we are least alone. View quote
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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! View quote
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Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. View quote
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I loved my country, and I hated him. View quote
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