Lord Byron Quotes on Psychology
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Oh, God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.
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He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday?
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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
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Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
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Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.
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The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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There was a laughing devil in his sneer.
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Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,-howe'er We promise, hope, believe,-there breathes despair.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse,-borne away with every breath!
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All farewells should be sudden.
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
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The news came to the village - the dire news which spread across the land, filling men's hearts with consternation - that Byron was dead. Tennyson was then about a boy of fifteen. 'Byron was dead! I thought the whole world was at an end,' he once said, speaking of those bygone days. 'I thought everything was over and finished for everyone - that nothing else mattered. I remembered I walked out alone, and carved 'Byron is dead' into the sandstone.'
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Always looking at himself in mirrors to make sure he was sufficiently outrageous.