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“And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.”

George Gordon Byron

Mazeppa (1819), stanza 10.

“A light broke in upon my brain, —
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased, and then it came again,
The sweetest song ear ever heard.”

George Gordon Byron The Prisoner of Chillon

The Prisoner of Chillon, st. 10.

“Who killed John Keats?
"I," says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
"'Twas one of my feats."”

George Gordon Byron

John Keats (c. 1821).

“For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.”

George Gordon Byron The Giaour

Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 123.

“How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.”

George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus

Act I, scene 2.
Sardanapalus (1821)

“Though the day of my Destiny's over,
And the star of my Fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could find.”

George Gordon Byron

Stanzas to Augusta http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Augusta2.html, st. 1 (1816).

“[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.”

George Gordon Byron

"To Mr. Moore", From the Letters of Lord Byron, 5 December 1816, p. 12.
Lord Byron's Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1870)

“It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny — and it has been bitter — whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.”

George Gordon Byron

From the Letters of Lord Byron (2 January 1817), p. 6.
Lord Byron's Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1870)

“Such hath it been — shall be — beneath the sun
The many still must labour for the one!”

George Gordon Byron

Canto I, stanza 8.
The Corsair (1814)

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.”

George Gordon Byron book Hebrew Melodies

The Destruction of Sennacherib http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/destruct.html, st. 1. <br class="br">Hebrew Melodies (1815)

“He seems
To have seen better days, as who has not
Who has seen yesterday?”

George Gordon Byron

Werner, Act I, sc. i (1822).

“There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me.”

George Gordon Byron

Stanzas for Music http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzM-beautysd.htm, st. 1 (1816).

“A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.”

George Gordon Byron The Dream

Stanza 3.
The Dream (1816)

“Hands promiscuously applied,
Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.”

George Gordon Byron

The Waltz, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome
And get knock'd on the head for his labours.
To do good to mankind is the chivalrous plan,
And is always as nobly requited;
Then battle for freedom wherever you can.
And, if not shot or hang'd, you'll get knighted.”

George Gordon Byron

Letter to Thomas Moore, 5 November 1820 http://books.google.com/books?id=K-s_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+a+man+hath+no+freedom+to+fight+for+at+home+Let+him+combat+for+that+of+his+neighbours+Let+him+think+of+the+glories+of+Greece+and+of+Rome+And+get+knock'd+on+the+head+for+his+labours+To+do+good+to+mankind+is+the+chivalrous+plan+And+is+always+as+nobly+requited+Then+battle+for+freedom+wherever+you+can+And+if+not+shot+or+hang'd+you+'ll+get+knighted%22&pg=PA377#v=onepage

“Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!”

George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos

Canto II, stanza 20. Here Byron is using an adaptation of a quote from Agricola by the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 30). The original words in the text are Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (To robbery, slaighter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a wilderness, and call it peace). This has also been reported as Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (They make solitude, which they call peace).
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

“Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!”

George Gordon Byron

Canto I, stanza 9.
The Corsair (1814)

“By all that's good and glorious.”

George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus

Act I, scene 2.
Sardanapalus (1821)

“There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”

George Gordon Byron

Stanzas for Music (March 1815), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate:
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.”

George Gordon Byron

To Thomas Moore, st. 2.