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.
- 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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