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Letter "L" » Lord Byron Quotes
«I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Fortune
«Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.»
«The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.»
«The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, / For fear that plenty should attain the poor.»
«That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.»
Author: Lord Byron
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bell, dinner bell, knell, knells, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, softening, tocsin
«Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!»
Author: Lord Byron
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Athens
«Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.»
«What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.»
«The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.»
«The nursery still lisps out in all they utter -/ Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.»
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