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• When all of genius which can perish dies.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Monody on the Death of Sheridan, Line 22...
• Who track the steps of glory to the grave.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Monody on the Death of Sheridan, Line 74...
• Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Monody on the Death of Sheridan, Line 117...
• He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled
  The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers....
• All tragedies are finished by death; all comedies are ended by a marriage. -- Lord Byro
• In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.
  -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Jua...
• What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 218...
• In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 3...
• Heaven gives its favourites--early death.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 102...