| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“A quiet conscience makes one so serene!
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 83)
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“Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;
Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.”
Conscience Quotes Source: The Island (canto I, st. 6)
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“There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Manfred (act III, sc. 1)
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“Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.”
Grave Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 12)
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“Of all
The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show
Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral
Made the attraction, and the black the woe;
There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall.”
Grave Quotes Source: Vision of Judgment (st. 10)
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“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
Fame Quotes Source: from Moore's "Life of Bryon"
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“What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,
And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.”
Fame Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 218)
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.”
Fame Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68)
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“O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises,
'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,
Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover
She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”
Fame Quotes Source: Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
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“Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!”
Night Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 93)
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“For the night
Shows stars and women in a better light.”
Night Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 152)
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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 learn'd the language of another world.”
Night Quotes Source: Manfred (act III, sc. 4)
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“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--
The negligence--the apathy--the evils
Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,
Whose delegated cruelty surpasses
The worst acts of one energetic master,
However harsh and hard in his own bearing.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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“Tyranny
Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
None rebels except subjects? The prince who
Neglects or violates his trust is more
A brigand than the robber-chief.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: The Two Foscari (act II, sc. 1)
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“All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep,
But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.”
Silence Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 89)
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“In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.”
Heaven Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 20)
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“Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?”
Man Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 1)
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“Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
Past Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Past Quotes Source: Letter
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“Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,
Not practise!”
Preaching Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 34)
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“The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.”
Soul Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 6)
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“Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.”
Glory Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan
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“The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice,
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.”
Voice Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 13)
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“They never fail who die
In a great cause.”
Success Quotes Source: Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2)
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“One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.”
Success Quotes Source: Marino Faliero (act II, sc. 2)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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