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Lord Byron



  • Fair Greece! Sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!



  • Absence - that common cure of love.



  • Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.



  • He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.



  • They never fail who die in a great cause.



  • When we think we lead we most are led.



  • Friendship is Love without his wings!



  • The heart will break, but, broken, live on.



  • For the night shows stars and woman in a better light.



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



  • I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.



  • History is the devil's scripture.



  • Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.



  • Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.



  • Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.



  • She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.



  • The power of thought, - the magic of the Mind!



  • Smiles form the channels of a future tear.



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



  • Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.



  • I awoke one morning and found myself famous.



  • And, after all, what is a lie? Tis but the truth in masquerade.



  • Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, tis woman's whole existence.



  • Adversity is the first path to truth.



  • On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.



  • All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.



  • Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.



  • I deny nothing, but doubt everything.



  • Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.



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



  • The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.



  • Who loves, raves.



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



  • Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.



  • Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.



  • A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.



  • There is a tide in the affairs of women which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.



  • 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.



  • Men are the sport circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.



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



  • Fame is the thirst of youth.



  • The ''good old times'' - all times when old are good.



  • Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.



  • The great are of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.



  • In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others, all she loves is love.



  • The busy have no time for tears.



  • We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.



  • He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?



  • The dew of compassion is a tear.



  • The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.



  • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.



  • I love not man the less, but nature more.



  • Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.



  • Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.



  • Prolonged endurance tames the bold.



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