For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Lord Byron More Quotes by Lord Byron More Quotes From Lord Byron Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. Lord Byron exhausting wisdom years I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”. Lord Byron moon sky rivers The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven. Lord Byron dog heart fall This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. Lord Byron mortality mortals Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain Lord Byron soda wine may Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron friends jealousy love History - the devil's scripture Lord Byron scripture devil Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! Lord Byron pain painful payment It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Lord Byron pain giving ideas What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. Lord Byron climate god men I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. Lord Byron love friendship sex I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end. Lord Byron thrones slave ends I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed. Lord Byron blessed may firsts There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken. Lord Byron opinion love sex Life is too short for chess. Lord Byron life-it-too-short chess-game life-is-too-short Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. Lord Byron sleep two reality For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. Lord Byron miserable poet men A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way. Lord Byron risk mistake people That low vice, curiosity! Lord Byron curiosity vices lows I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen. Lord Byron sad lovers sea