I awoke one day to find myself famous.
LORD BYRONSociety is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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 first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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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.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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