If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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Imagination droops her pinion.Lord Byron
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence courage without ferocity and all the virtues of man without his vices.
Lord Byron
If not for the love of me be given
Thus much, then, for the love of Heaven, -
Again I say - that turban tear
From off thy faithless brow, and swear
Thine injured country's sons to spare,
Or thou art lost; and never shalt see -
Not earth - that's past - but heaven or me.
Lord Byron
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
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