But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?
Lord Byron
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GREGORY MILLER We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
MAY L. BECKER We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves
MAY LAMBERTON BECKER We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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- Lord Byron (George Gor...
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a
porpoise.
JONATHAN SWIFT And yet methinks the older that one grows
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GEORGE GORDON BYRON I've seen him grow so very much over the past few months in the Lord and the more you grow in the Lo...
MAGGIE WRIGHT Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
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VIKRANT PARSAI A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
JOHN POWELL The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.
RICK JOYNER Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
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THOMAS PAINE I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...
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Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settl...
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CHINESE PROVERB Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
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MARY MCGRORY My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker,...
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ZENDAYA As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling...
THOMAS WATSON Good. Who else? How about people who grow things?
CHUCK TAYLOR A man must grow up as his own person and shape his own character in order to identify his destinatio...
SUNDAY ADELAJA But I live and I know that I burn as I grow.
DAR WILLIAMS I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, wh...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
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WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Those who love deeply never grow old.
ANONYMOUS A couple who travel together, grow together.
AHMAD FUADI Time rolls his ceaseless course.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The U.S. economy being so big cannot grow as fast as some of the fleet-of-foot economies. For us to ...
DAVID LUI Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.
JERRY WEINTRAUB We don't want to grow up, we never want to grow up!
BLINK 182 It didn't just grow. It just went bam!
LEE MURPHY In 2006 we want to grow to 550 hectares of farmland.
JOSé ROBERTO PRADO The Lord forgives some, and unites them with Himself, they forsake their duality and sinful ways.
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CHINESE PROVERB There are many more growers in the valley who grow grass seed but do not burn.
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ALAN ISAACSON The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
DAVE WINER That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain
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they grow every day.
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JEN KNOX Don’t grow older—grow wiser.
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E. E. CUMMINGS I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE As we grow old
the beauty steals inward.
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LORD BYRON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
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LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
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LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
LORD BYRON I wish he would explain his explanation
LORD BYRON All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Fame is the thirst of youth.
LORD BYRON For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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LORD BYRON Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
LORD BYRON Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah gi...
LORD BYRON I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
LORD BYRON The dew of compassion is a tear.
LORD BYRON Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
LORD BYRON I love not man the less, but Nature more.
LORD BYRON Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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LORD BYRON The heart will break, but broken live on.
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LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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LORD BYRON The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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LORD BYRON I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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LORD BYRON Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
LORD BYRON It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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LORD BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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LORD BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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LORD BYRON Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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LORD BYRON What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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LORD BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
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LORD BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pau...
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LORD BYRON Goodnight
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
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LORD BYRON I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!
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LORD BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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LORD BYRON Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
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LORD BYRON History is the devil's scripture.
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LORD BYRON Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
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LORD BYRON Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that porten...
LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
LORD BYRON It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
LORD BYRON He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
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LORD BYRON He said / Little, but to the purpose.
LORD BYRON The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
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LORD BYRON Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
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LORD BYRON Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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LORD BYRON The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and ...
LORD BYRON I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
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LORD BYRON The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
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LORD BYRON If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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LORD BYRON I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloyin...
LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
LORD BYRON Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
LORD BYRON Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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LORD BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past
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LORD BYRON Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
LORD BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
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LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote
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LORD BYRON When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew th...
LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
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LORD BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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LORD BYRON