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Lord Byron

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LORD BYRON It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Thank the good Lord for a job.
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
GEORGE S. CLASON It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
OSCAR WILDE From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO He was rarely happy throughout his life but he was a good Rider and a good man.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
WILSON MIZNER To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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LYNN GOOD Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a cele...
MEAGAN GOOD Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
LYNN GOOD I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wante...
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BRUCE GOOD The crew responded with a trained response that they do to keep people from getting on the ship. The...
BRUCE GOOD Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.
BRUCE GOOD Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.
BOB GOOD We didn't get into the rough stuff. We got there too late to fight, but there's a bond there you nev...
BOB GOOD I've known Dan about seven years. He's a good person and a good vet.
BOB GOOD I've never done anything like this. But I'm not scared. I'm looking forward to it.
BOB GOOD An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of t...
LYNN GOOD Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay...
LYNN GOOD Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart.
KATHY GOOD If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
LYNN GOOD If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the...
LYNN GOOD If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits de...
LYNN GOOD Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate,...
LYNN GOOD The statue is complete and is being shipped (from the Czech Republic) even as we speak.
CHRIS GOOD I love creme liner because I have lash extensions and sometimes the liquid liner can get into the la...
MEAGAN GOOD Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear...
LYNN GOOD I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more...
LYNN GOOD Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and ...
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DARREL GOOD We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions ...
LYNN GOOD However, if bird flu results in a permanent reduction in world poultry production, an increase in re...
DARREL GOOD The market will closely monitor planting progress, weather and weather forecasts, and weekly crop co...
DARREL GOOD With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will b...
DARREL GOOD The USDA generates crop production forecasts based on estimates of planted and harvested acreage and...
DARREL GOOD The USDA generates crop production forecasts based on estimates of planted and harvested acreage and...
DARREL GOOD A trend yield near 150 bushels, then, would produce a 2006 crop of 10.92 billion bushels.
DARREL GOOD Based on current conditions, however, it appears that the soybean prices need to be at a level to di...
DARREL GOOD I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.
MEAGAN GOOD There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my s...
LYNN GOOD One-hundred-meter hurdles is my strongest event. I've had my ups and downs with it, but I love hurdl...
ASHLEY GOOD This team has a lot more drive to get better. There's a lot more people out here who want it.
ASHLEY GOOD We're on all-star teams, so it's a totally different level.
ASHLEY GOOD I still think that it was the right decision.
ANDREW GOOD I am horrified by the verdict, and I am very very shocked and disappointed that justice was miscarri...
ANDREW GOOD She told the whole truth, nothing but the truth. If police had listened to her, maybe we wouldn't be...
ANDREW GOOD Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not ...
LYNN GOOD The production intentions of hog producers will be of particular interest. The report will reveal wh...
DARREL GOOD I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer...
LYNN GOOD Today word of mouse is more powerful than word of mouth.
KATE GOOD That level of use is historically consistent and provides evidence that the size of the 2005 harvest...
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CHARLIE GOOD When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market — and producers have leverage. When th...
KEVIN GOOD The forecasting comparisons for soybeans were somewhat sensitive to the measure of forecast accuracy...
DARREL GOOD The forecasting comparisons for soybeans were somewhat sensitive to the measure of forecast accuracy...
DARREL GOOD If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.
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KEVIN GOOD The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
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LEON GOOD It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
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.
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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
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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 Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
LORD BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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LORD BYRON The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
LORD BYRON Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
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.
LORD BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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LORD BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
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LORD BYRON Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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.
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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!
LORD BYRON [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
LORD BYRON How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these hor...
LORD BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pau...
LORD BYRON A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
LORD BYRON Goodnight
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
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LORD BYRON I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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LORD BYRON In solitude, where we are least alone.
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LORD BYRON I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!
LORD BYRON As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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LORD BYRON Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
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LORD BYRON Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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LORD BYRON I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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LORD BYRON I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
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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.
LORD BYRON Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD BYRON Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
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?
LORD BYRON The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequen...
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
LORD BYRON Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves ...
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.
LORD BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD BYRON The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
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LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
LORD BYRON All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage
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LORD BYRON There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange
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LORD BYRON The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the ar...
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LORD BYRON If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
LORD BYRON Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company
LORD BYRON In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to s...
LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
LORD BYRON The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
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.
LORD BYRON But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o...
LORD BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD BYRON Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares ...
LORD BYRON But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy w...
LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past
LORD BYRON 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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.
LORD BYRON To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
LORD BYRON Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I r...
LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote
LORD BYRON A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry ...
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.
LORD BYRON We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
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.
LORD BYRON A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
LORD BYRON Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there m...
LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD BYRON The very best of vineyards is the cellar
LORD BYRON As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believ...
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
LORD BYRON I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman ...
LORD BYRON Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own r...
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.
LORD BYRON Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
LORD BYRON I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
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
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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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