Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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• Lord Byron:

  He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

• Lord Byron:

  Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

• Lord Byron:

  Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

• Lord Byron:

  Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah g

• Lord Byron:

  'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

• Lord Byron:

  A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry

• Lord Byron:

  Absence - that common cure of love.

• Lord Byron:

  Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are sla

• Lord Byron:

  There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everyth

• Lord Byron:

  The dew of compassion is a tear.