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George Gordon Byron Quotes
- And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a...
- But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
- Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. ...
- Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in...
- For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? ...
- He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? ...
- I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the...
- I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being...
- It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me...
- It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer...
- My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain...
- My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks...
- Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ...
- There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none...
- There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything....
- Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves....
- Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ...
- Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given...
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