Lord Byron

1788 - 1824

A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on thought and wisdom

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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 107.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on departure, immortality, and worth

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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 73.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on farewells and faults

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Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,- Not for thy faults, but mine.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 77.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on feeling and time

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 19.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on art and sports

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. . . the art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on despair

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The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on art, death, hope, and nations

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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 168.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on creation, heart, idealism, and mortality

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Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron on books

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'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 51.

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A Quote by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Source: A Sketch.

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