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“Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.”

George Gordon Byron

St. 3.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)

“He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”

George Gordon Byron

Canto III, stanza 24; this can be compared to: "Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, "Democritus to the Reader".
The Corsair (1814)

“I die — but first I have possessed,
And come what may, I have been blessed.”

George Gordon Byron The Giaour

Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 1114.

“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”

George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos

Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, / Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, / And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!" Goethe, Wilhelm Meister.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

“What's drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!”

George Gordon Byron

The Deformed Transformed, Act III, sc. i (1824).

“Patience! Hence—that word was made
For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;
Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,—
I am not of thine order.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)

“Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

Act II, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”

George Gordon Byron

Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)

“No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”

George Gordon Byron

Canto III, stanza 22.
The Corsair (1814)

“Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.”

George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 839.

“And thou wert lovely to the last,
Extinguish'd, not decay'd;
As stars that shoot along the sky
Shine brightest as they fall from high.”

George Gordon Byron

And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812).

“Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!”

George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 399.

“The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful!
I linger yet with Nature, for the Night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn'd the language of another world.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

Act III, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”

George Gordon Byron

Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzaFP91.htm, st. 1 (1821).

“The heart ran o'er
With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

Act III, scene iv.
Manfred (1817)

“Oh! if thou hast at length
Discover'd that my love is worth esteem,
I ask no more—but let us hence together,
And I — let me say we — shall yet be happy.
Assyria is not all the earth—we'll find
A world out of our own — and be more bless'd
Than I have ever been, or thou, with all
An empire to indulge thee.”

George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus

Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)

“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea;
But, before I go, Tom Moore.
Here's a double health to thee!”

George Gordon Byron

To Thomas Moore http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-TomMoore.htm, st. 1 (1817).

“Who track the steps of glory to the grave.”

George Gordon Byron

Source: Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816), Line 74.

“Whate'er
I may have been, or am, doth rest between
Heaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortal
To be my mediator.”

George Gordon Byron book Manfred

Act III, scene i.
Manfred (1817)