"Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!"
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Lord Byron quotes (page 29 of 30)
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"The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world."
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"But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on."
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"Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years ."
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"In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell."
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"Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die."
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"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!"
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"I loved my country, and I hated him."
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"Fills The air around with beauty."
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"I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw."
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"But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."
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"Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave."
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"There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine."
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"Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save."
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"Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket."
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"Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?"
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"The Niobe of nations! there she stands."
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"To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!"
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"But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem."
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"I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream."
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