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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Lord Byron
Writing, Mad, Mind
Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Lord Byron
Law, Cities

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Lord Byron
Rocks, Shock
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Lord Byron
Mistake, Mind, Scratches

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Lord Byron
Wonder, Hours, Tales
Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Lord Byron
Light, Ears, Oar
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

Lord Byron
Lying, Deceit, Maids
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Lord Byron
Hate, Heart, Hatred

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Lord Byron
Morality, Rough, Johnson
Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.279, Sheba Blake Publishing

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Lord Byron
Depth, World, Truth Is

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Lord Byron
Age, Decay, Divinity
Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.198

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

Lord Byron
Adolescence
Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.88, Routledge

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Byron
Freedom, Cynical, Dignity

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron
Life, Wisdom, Tree

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Lord Byron
Love, Broken Heart, Happy Valentines Day

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron
Kindness, Adversity, Not Giving Up
Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron
Inspirational, Life, Fall
Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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

Lord Byron
Men, Thinking, Dust

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord Byron
Hilarious, Being Alone, Appetite For Life

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Lord Byron
Oddities, Age
Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.40, Xist Publishing

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron
Funny, Truth, Fiction
Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

Lord Byron
And Love, Drink, Nickels

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

Lord Byron
Men, Divine, Source
Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.16, Routledge

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

Lord Byron
Time, Feelings, Torture
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.269, Delphi Classics

Self praise is no praise at all.

Lord Byron
Self, Vanity, Praise