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A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust


Lord Byron

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A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
JAPANESE PROVERB The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're go...
BOB DYLAN It seems like every few years there's a state lawmaker who bites the dust. But in terms of a statewi...
CHARLES BULLOCK How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
ENGLISH PROVERB A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
ENGLISH PROVERB It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer...
JOHANNES KEPLER All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment
ERNEST BRAMAH A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
ERNEST BRAMAH O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE May you live a thousand years, and I, a thousand less one day; that I might never know the world wit...
HUNGARIAN PROVERB A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a sec...
VICTOR HUGO No matter how bad an idea may sound,if exhibited to a thousand investors,atleast ten may buy it.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her youn...
BIBLE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Thousand years, billion dollars,” May said to the monkey. “You. PAY.
JAMES RILEY Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
THE CIVIL WARS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
MINOT J. SAVAGE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a...
C. JOYBELL C. In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thous...
PETER DIAMANDIS Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's hig...
EDWARD YOUNG You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
FAY GODWIN It is my honor to serve with you, the people of Idaho. This great state, this forty-third star in th...
DIRK KEMPTHORNE An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We all must serve the Lord in whatsoever capacity He has called us to serve
SUNDAY ADELAJA As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. People want to have an experience when they take a shower. They want to enjoy themselves in a standi...
LARS CHRISTENSEN An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER [Sen. Byron Dorgan said the move sends a strong message.] I think it's a very serious step and will ...
BYRON DORGAN You say to Billie Jean, 'Boy, what's wrong with Venus' serve?' - that's an hour.
MARY CARILLO Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Dex was many wonderful things but he wasn’t perfect – he was his own greatest enemy.
KARINA HALLE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.
VANESSA CARLTON We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD In those days, if you were a Catholic and wanted to serve the Lord, you became a nun.
CAROL SIMON We exist to serve the Lord.
SHRI RADHE MAA A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine.
WILLIAM COWPER But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN We think it may have been food poisoning. I may have gotten an hour of sleep. I threw up and then I ...
BART EDDINS I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover w...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
J. (JOSHUA) REUBEN CLARK, JR. In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
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TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
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HEATHER BROOKE To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
EDWARD FITZGERALD The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
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TREY SMITH If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There's two to three elephants crossing the border in smoked form every day, meaning about a thousan...
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LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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