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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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
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Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
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That low vice, curiosity!
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The ''good old times'' - all times when old are good.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
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