Lord George Byron
English poet
Lived from: 1788 - 1824
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom
Born: 22 january 1788 Died: 19 april 1824
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Romances I never read like those I have seen.
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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
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Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
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Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Suspicion is a heavy armour, and I with its own weight impedes more than protects.
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