15 ordspråk av George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron

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

 Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

 For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

 I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

 I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

 I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

 If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure.

 Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.

 My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices.

 She walks in beauty like the night.

 The best prophet of the future is the past.

 There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

 This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with the best of intentions.

 When we think we lead we are most led.

 Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy. Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.



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