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«I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: allies, islander, Islanders
«I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.»
Author: Lord Byron
«I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Graves
«I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: inhuman, penal, The Menace
«Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.»
Author: Lord Byron
«I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.»
«Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: atoms, innate, jar
«Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate: / His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: keys, rusty, Saint Peter
«The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: octosyllabic
«Clime of the unforgotten brave! / Whose land from plain to mountain-cave / Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave!»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: cave, clime, climes, Home of the Brave

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