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If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears


Lord Byron

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ROBERT FROST And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
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LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
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LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
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LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
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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