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title: "4 Despise Quotes By Lord Byron"
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> [Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/admire-exult-despise-laugh-weep-for-here-there-is-such-matter-for-all/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-live-but-live-to-die-and-living-see-nothing-to-make-death-hateful/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/retirement-accords-with-the-tone-of-my-mind-i-will-not-descend-to-a/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/do-proper-homage-to-thine-idol-s-eyes-but-no-too-humbly-or-she-will/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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## Other authors on Despise

## More by Lord Byron

> [A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/a-thousand-years-may-scare-form-a-state-an-hour-may-lay-it-in-ruins/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/to-chase-the-glowing-hours-with-flying-feet/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/your-thief-looks-exactly-like-the-rest-or-rather-better-tis-only-at/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/age-shakes-athena-s-tower-but-spares-gray-marathon/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/she-walks-in-beauty-like-the-night-of-cloudless-climes-and-starry/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/we-of-the-craft-are-all-crazy-some-are-affected-by-gaiety-others-by/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/men-love-in-haste-but-they-detest-at-leisure/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/and-the-commencement-of-atonement-is-the-sense-of-its-necessity/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/self-love-for-ever-creeps-out-like-a-snake-to-sting-anything-which/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/lord-of-himself-that-heritage-of-woe/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/here-s-a-sigh-to-those-who-love-me-and-a-smile-to-those-who-hate-and/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/for-most-men-till-by-losing-rendered-sager-will-back-their-own/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/it-is-by-far-the-most-elegant-worship-hardly-excepting-the-greek/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-should-like-to-know-who-has-been-carried-off-except-poor-dear-me-i/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

> [O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/o-thou-beautiful-and-unimaginable-ether-and-ye-multiplying-masses-of/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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